The biomolecules were contained in oil extracted from deeply buried rock A planetary takeover by ocean-dwelling algae 650 million years ago was the kick that transformed life on Earth. That's what ...

Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected water is ingested while swimming, for example. And it is known to be ...

Researchers knew that many species of algae produced energy-dense lipids that could be converted to biofuels, and teams around the world began to explore how to supercharge this lipid production.

Blue-green algae has returned to Lough Neagh in high levels. Large green mats have formed around the lough, particularly in the north-east. The blooms previously closed bathing waters in ...

They use hundreds (or even thousands) of tiny tube feet to contact and entangle urchins, clams, mussels and small fish — typically other organisms that subsist on algae and phylum. Starfish ...

After a hot and sunny September, blue-green algae blooms have been observed in Powderhorn and Nokomis lakes in Minneapolis, according to a new alert by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

Freshwater blue-green algae blooms are "not all bad, and they're also pretty to look at," but a Waterloo region researcher is also reminding people that they could be "lethal to humans." ...

Almost every phylum of living creature can be found living ... Corals provide the substrate for sessile organisms to attach, including algae, sponges, and non-reef building corals (e.g., fire ...

From the slime-covered rocks on the windswept beaches in Washington where I grew up, to the enormous strands of bull kelp that float in the Puget Sound, I’ve been fascinated by algae most of my ...

[Cody] of Cody’sLab has been bit by what he describes as the algae growing bug. We at Hackaday didn’t know that was a disease floating around, but we’ll admit that we’re not surprised ...

The German word for phylum, bauplan (body plan), is helpful ... Mollusks, crustaceans, and even coralline algae are among the living things that use calcium in their structures, a process that ...

Aa Aa Aa Corals reefs are communities of organisms in which corals (members of the phylum Cnidaria ... Role of symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) in coral calcification. Biological Bulletin 141 ...