A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of the ...

Researchers say chlorine in combination with ultraviolet light works to degrade deadly toxins created by harmful algae blooms in drinking water.

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water. Researchers with the ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria started to produce oxygen in the primarily toxic atmosphere of Earth.

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

In terms of eukaryotic phytoplankton, stramenopiles, green algae, cryptophytes ... a number of studies have indicated that the 16S rRNA gene (which is found in the chloroplast genomes of eukaryotic ...

It has a green hue because of the presence of chloroplast within it. The alga exists as “single cells or can form clones up to a size of 64 cells,” per the study. It can be used for the ...

Green Party candidate for chancellor Robert Habeck is one of Germany's best-known politicians. He also faces fierce attacks from his opponents from the center- and far right. Habeck has three ...

They are situated inside the chloroplasts of photosynthetic organisms, capture the energy from light, and transfer it to the reaction centre where chemical reactions take place.

Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green said Wednesday he plans to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump after he suggested the U.S. should take over Gaza. “The movement to impeach the ...