Microscope image of Zygnema circumcarinatum, a filamentous alga with a star-shaped chloroplast. Because of this feature, algae of the genus Zygnema are also called "star algae" (scale is 50 µm ...

A research team from Indian university Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has developed solar cells from living algae. The team fabricated the bio-photovoltaic device using the freshwater filamentous ...

Countless bacteria call the vastness of the oceans home, and they all face the same problem: the nutrients they need to grow ...

A number of large seaweeds, like the leafy green algae Caulerpa, lack microscopic dividing structures, making them some of ...

Have you ever seen brown or green goo floating on a river or in the ocean? Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is ...

The inner workings of an algal cell as depicted with cryo-electron tomography, which aggregates multiple snapshots of a single piece of material. Visible are the endoplasmic reticulum (yellow ...

Juvenile black, white, and yellow-striped Bluehead wrasse fish dart in and out of a dead colony of pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus ...

09/20/2024 September 20, 2024 Scientists in Chile are generating electricity from algae in a process similar to solar cell energy production. They're even using sturdier types of macro-algae, but ...

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Countless bacteria call the vastness of the oceans home, and they all face the same problem: the nutrients they need to grow and multiply are scarce and unevenly distributed in the waters around ...

A cell's daily operations are accomplished through the biochemical reactions that take place within the cell. Reactions are turned on and off or sped up and slowed down according to the cell's ...

A fuel cell is a device that generates electric energy through electrochemical reactions between an oxidizing agent and a fuel – a material that stores energy in chemical form. Both species are ...