India's coastal shores hold a secret that transforms them into magical realms after sunset: bioluminescent beaches. These ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

krill. We’ll show you where krill fits into the discussion about plankton, including how they are alike and what makes them different. By the time we have finished, you’ll know how to tell these two ...

Joondalup (Australia), Apr 11 (The Conversation) Swim along the edge of a coral reef and you’ll often see schools of sleek, torpedo-shaped fishes gliding through the currents, feeding on tiny plankton ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

At the start of the experiment, the plankton organisms—i.e., algae, bacteria and other single-celled organisms, fungi and small crustaceans—were equally distributed among all enclosures.

zooplankton consume their energy. The filter feeders get around by pumping water through their bodies, propelling themselves and feeding on tiny organisms like bacteria and single-cell algae.

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Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant within sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more than 7,000 years. The tiny diatom cells have regained full biological ...

Many organisms, from bacteria to plankton to mammals, can go into "sleep mode," or dormancy, in order to survive periods of unfavorable environmental conditions -- switching to a state of reduced ...