Snow isn't always white; algae can make it look green, red, or orange, and scientists are trying to understand how and why these colorful patches appear.

New aquarium owners often face a common issue: a dusty brown film on surfaces. This isn't true algae but diatoms, microscopic organisms thriving in unstable water conditions with excess silica and ...

Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...

Have you ever wondered if slugs can smile — or if they even have teeth? How a slug eats is surprisingly complex!

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Duncan's research showed that these changes degrade the composition of sea-ice microalgae. As sea ice thickness and coverage ...

A microscopic "Christmas tree" is a seasonal highlight of a remarkable science project that sees a quirky comparison of vast ...

A remarkable science project sees a quirky comparison of vast and small. Curated by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a ...

A team of researchers from Yokohama National University, Japan, have discovered a previously unknown species of marine fungus ...

Curated by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a series of pairings reveals stunning connections between the vast universe and ...

Time-lapse of algae growing in water. We poured pond water in a glass container and added a small piece of algae into it. The ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...