WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the world's ocean plankton, the tiny organisms that serve as food for marine creatures such as ...

Plankton are the invisible engines of life on Earth, producing much of the planet's oxygen and forming the foundation of the ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Researchers have utilized ultrastructure expansion microscopy to reveal more about the cytoskeletal characteristics of the ...

A pandemic-era breakthrough has allowed scientists to literally expand our view of plankton. By using ultrastructure expansion microscopy, researchers visualized the inner workings of hundreds of ...

A 50-year study says more Vibrio infections correlate with rising water temperatures, representing “a direct impact on human ...

Single-celled organisms of the sea shoot their prey with Spiderman webbing and tiny Gatling guns. Now, new research finds that the tiny weapons of Nematodinium and related dinoflagellates are their ...

In an experiment with organisms from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists has demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition ...

A magnified image of marine plankton has won a prestigious international photography contest for tiny works that exist, in the words of the winning photographer, in the “limbo between art and science.

An up-close portrait of a corkscrew-shaped plankton, a peek into a painted turtle's eye and a magnified view of a marine worm are among this year's winners of a photography contest that honors all ...