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

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 ...

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

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

Tiny organisms called foraminifera can be incredibly useful for protecting coral reefs. Promovenda Elsa B. Girard developed a method to study them more efficiently. “This way, you can act before the ...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will support a major effort to synthesize decades of research on protists—microscopic organisms that play a vital role in aquatic ecosystems but remain ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte Venom is not exclusive to animals—plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, and even viruses use venom-like mechanisms for defense, predation, and competition. Dodder - Cuscuta on a potato ...

Protists are outcasts of sorts, a diverse, catch-all group of mostly single-celled organisms that have features that disqualify them from the other life groups: animals, plants, fungi, bacteria ...