On average, phytoplankton are only five to 10 percent heavier than seawater. This means if they want to remain at the surface ...

Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the ...

The researchers discovered that P. noctiluca cells behave more like little submarines which can control their density so they can choose where they want to reach the ocean’s surface. On a research ...

In a paper publishing October 17 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, researchers describe a species of bioluminescent phytoplankton, called Pyrocystis noctiluca, that balloons to six times ...

Researchers have discovered that the bioluminescent phytoplankton Pyrocystis noctiluca can rapidly inflate, allowing them to ...

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This unique strategy for ocean travel is described in a study published October 17 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. “What we have discovered in this paper is that these P. noctiluca ...

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Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ...