Green, murky water can signal more than an eyesore. Certain blooms raise safety concerns for swimmers, pets, and homeowners ...

At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and sealed off from light and oxygen, ancient phytoplankton have been lying dormant for thousands of years. Now, researchers have ...

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.

Palm oil is a very widely-used food ingredient, but its production has a huge environmental impact, plus it may not be entirely healthy to consume. A greener, "lower-fat" alternative could be on the ...

An international group of researchers has succeeded in identifying a previously unknown group of algae. As currently reported in the scientific journal Science, the newly discovered algae are found ...

New research could help with the large-scale cultivation and manufacturing of oil-rich algae in oceans for biofuel. Algae are a diverse and simple group of organisms that live in or near water.

From left, Alli Kernan, Kait Giffin, Derek Smith and Emma Rashleigh check a sample of water containing algae for the presence of brine shrimp during David Lillard's AP Biology class at Glacier High ...

Corals serve as a host to algae, which in turn produces sugars that the corals consume. Now, though, scientists have created 3D-printed coral that's even more algae-friendly than its natural ...

Dail Laughinghouse wants to keep CNN from returning to Florida to get more pictures of green slime. He’s an algae slayer. And he saw a dragon in the footage of last summer’s bloom. It so happened that ...

A biology lab at San Diego State University is working with a NASA grant to write a recipe for guacamole that will travel to space. KPBS sci-tech reporter has the story of a guac mix that’s made to be ...

High-resolution scanning electron microscope images of fossil cell coverings of nannoplankton highlighting holes that would have allowed flagella and haptonema to emerge from the cell and draw in food ...

A slew of popular-science books have set out to convince readers that some overlooked, obscure or generally disdained category of thing is actually wildly important, whether it’s salt, garbage or ...