Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This ...

In a small manganese oxide cluster, teams from HZB and HU Berlin have discovered a particularly exciting compound: two high-spin manganese centers in two very different oxidation states. This complex ...

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes called HABs, occur when algae grow out of control. Algae are photosynthetic organisms that ...

GrandPre explained how specific biomolecular condensates called pyrenoids allow some organisms — like algae — to conduct photosynthesis, a process that uses carbon dioxide to convert solar light ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

Researchers found that Greenland’s ice algae store phosphorus, allowing them to expand and darken ice surfaces, reducing ...

This allows the plant to capture and store carbon dioxide until the Sun rises again, offering the light necessary to complete photosynthesis. Algae are widely thought to conduct half of the world ...

Jovine, the cofounder and chief scientist of Brilliant Planet, is trying to engineer high-growth microalgae strains to capture and bury carbon as biomass in the ground for 1,000 years. In August 2023, ...

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth’s mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

These algae can turn sunlight into sugar through photosynthesis, providing nutrients for the clams. "It's like the algae are seeds, and a tree grows out of the clam's stomach," Li said.