Microscopic algae that live within reef-forming corals scoop up available nitrogen, store the excess in crystal form, and slowly feed it to the coral as needed, according to a study published in mBio, ...

Researchers from several Parisian institutions have worked together to develop a non-destructive approach to study how ...

Fossil raw materials are limited and not available and extractable everywhere in the world – as we are becoming acutely aware of right now by the example of fossil fuels and rising energy prices.

Scientists now believe the earliest plants were not leafy or rooted, but microscopic green algae drifting in oceans roughly ...

Scientists have made the world's smallest chariot - pulled by microscopic algae. Researchers have created tiny, vehicle-like structures - which see algae caught in baskets attached to the so-called ...

Scientists have managed to revive microscopic algae that had been lying dormant for nearly 7,000 years at the bottom of the ...

Scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences took samples of sediment from salt marshes at both Barnegat Bay and Great Bay in New Jersey to try to determine whether the tiny algae, called diatoms, ...

If you don't mind stretching things a bit, a horse or any other animal used to pull human-made vehicles is a sort of living engine. Our species has been using them forever, and we still do, despite ...

Looking ahead to a day when Arizona would lead the way in algae farming, a Tucson lawmaker has proposed two bills that commercialize alga-culture and enable the UA and Arizona State University to ...

Taking an approach similar to that used for discovering new therapeutic drugs, chemists at the University of California, Davis, have found several compounds that can boost oil production by green ...