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 ...

Specifically, scientists have worked with “exosomes” — tiny biological mail trucks that stem cells dispatch to tell neighbors ...

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 ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

What do tears, semen, menstrual blood, breast milk and animal feces have in common? They’ve all been under Montreal ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

When creepy-crawly pests show up in your home, the instinct is often to reach for the strongest chemical spray available – or call an exterminator. But before you do either, there's good news: many ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

Fossilized microscopic algae offer insights into historic environmental conditions and provide a clearer picture of how the climate has changed through the ages.

Fresh snow can look like a blank sheet of paper, so bright it almost hurts to stare at in midday sun. Yet at the microscopic level, those flakes are not white at all, and the color we think we see is ...

Goethe-Institut Chennai Travelling Plants is a multiphase transdisciplinary project initiated and led by the Goethe Institut, ...