On the downside, algal technology is still in its infancy. Scientists all over the world are now trying to figure out how to handle and use them. They are selecting high-yield strains, optimizing ...

Hannah joined The Scientist as an assistant editor in 2023. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2017 and completed the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism in ...

A team of researchers including Department of Marine Sciences Professor Senjie Lin have for the first time sequenced the ...

ABOVE: Researchers have identified a nitrogen-fixing organelle known as a nitroplast. Here, it is seen at the opposite end of ...

"Our goal was to develop a technique that allows us to accurately capture the subtle differences in the cell structure of algae and their interactions with bacteria," explains Constanze Schultz of ...

The researcher team, from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham university in Coimbatore, India, sandwiched macroalgae between a carbon-coated copper electrode and a titanium oxide-coated fluorine-doped tin ...

A curious phenomenon springs up occasionally on New York's Finger Lakes: white foam, sometimes in miles-long swathes, almost ...

Lake Superior is known for its pristine waters, but a combination of nutrient additions from increasing human activity (including farming and development), warming temperatures and stormy ...

But they didn’t feed like other microscopic vampires. The unicellular blobs engulfed and split apart Closterium algae cells, sucking out the insides and tossing the rest. “We just couldn’t b ...

The membrane that surrounds cells in living organisms is extremely flexible and sensitive. How it protects itself from damage ...

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Julich have now used cryo-electron microscopy to uncover intriguing new information. Known from the photosynthetic system of plants, algae, and bacteria, the membrane ...