Scientists have found that an increase in water salinity in the cells of the marine diatom Nitzschia weakens the connections ...

Global warming is making it harder to clean up the iconic River Thames in the UK, according to a new study involving ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

A flea may hop into the air for a second, a diatom may be carried by the wind ... They make new proteins and destroy old ones. They grow in the clouds and even divide in two.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there's life out there somewhere.

Dictionaries offer various descriptions, such as the ability to grow, reproduce and respond to stimuli ... serving structural and functional roles. For example, diatoms, a type of algae found in the ...

"The abrupt impact winter would provide unfavorable climate conditions for plants to grow, leading to an initial ... rich algae -- referred to as diatoms. Their blooms would also attract large ...