A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

If humans are ever going to live beyond Earth, they'll need to construct habitats. But transporting enough industrial material to create livable spaces would be incredibly challenging and expensive.

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Sacoglossan sea slugs, discreet inhabitants of coral reefs, hide an astonishing secret. Unlike other animals, they can "steal ...

morgan23 / Getty Images A fully grown tree may lose several hundred gallons of water through its leaves on a hot, dry day. The same tree will lose nearly no water on wet, cold, winter days, so ...

He eventually opted for blue-green algae, which can express most plant-derived genes and can be easily modified due to its small genome size. In 2015, for the first time, his team produced a series of ...

The northern Barents Sea region has experienced rapid warming and increased advection of warm Atlantic water in recent ...

In many natural habitats, growth of cyanobacteria may be limited by a low concentration of iron. Cyanobacteria respond to this condition by expressing a number of iron-stress-inducible genes, of which ...

A deadly algae bloom that has killed nearly eight million Atlantic salmon being farmed in northern Norway appears to be dispersing, according to the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. The bloom, ...