Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health.

On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Algal blooms have many causes, but it's commonly chemicals in industrial fertilizers that end up in rivers and oceans in a ...

More recently, though, I’ve noticed that microalgae are popping up more and more, to the point that I started to wonder: What ...

If a gene is evolutionarily conserved, that shows it must be doing something important. Otherwise, nature would let it go.

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers looked billions of years into the past to learn more about the potential future of precision ...

Birdbaths are susceptible to growing slimy green algae if they're not cleaned properly. Use this pantry staple to clean and ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...