High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way to bind carbon dioxide. Researchers have now found a new method to control starch ...

A group of USC scientists has developed a new way to track vitamins believed essential to marine life, and they’re making it public. In the 1960s, researchers hypothesized that some parts of the ocean ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...

On the barren coast of Akhfenir, Morocco, a nature-based solution to the climate crisis is taking shape. Raffael Jovine is building an oblong, mechanically stirred pool full of pea-green water. He ...

Algae holds great promise. Whether it’s macroalgae (think seaweed found on beaches) or microalgae (such as spirulina from freshwater ponds), these plant-like organisms are abundant, nutritious and ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Warmer weather in Central Texas usually means a few things: Bluebonnets start blooming, severe weather activity picks up, and algae pops up in waterways. If you’re a fan of ...

On Tuesday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment warned people about the presence of toxic algae blooms in bodies of water such as lakes and reservoirs. Toxic algae -- also known ...