Today, Holz is an electron microscopy research fellow at Boston University in neuroscientist Helen Barbas’s group. While she spends her weekdays capturing images for scientific research, her weekends ...

Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They ...

If you go to the beach and dip a bucket in the sea, you might at first think it contains lifeless water. But examine that water under a microscope and you will see your bucket contains a universe of ...

Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea ...

Using holograms created in digital microscopes and interpreted using artificial intelligence (AI), for the first time researchers can now follow the lives of microplankton at the individual level. The ...

Plankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs. They consist of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals). Their name derives from the Greek word for “drifter”, since they are too ...

AN eye-opening short film has revealed the secrets of the tiny sea creatures that are crucial for sustaining human life. The hidden secrets of the tiny creatures that are crucial for sustaining human ...

Here’s a slightly alarming tidbit of news for your Friday: Plankton — that wonderful array of microscopic creatures floating in our water — can eat tiny bits of plastic. Why should we care? Well, for ...

Cremona’s book is a guide to the different types of plankton found along the British coast, such as the larva of a Magelona ...

Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. A huge X-ray microscope has revealed growth bands in plankton shells that show how ...