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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ability of some plankton and bacteria to build an extra natural layer of nanoparticle-like armor has inspired chemists to devise a startlingly simple way to give drug bearing polymer vesicles ...

Ever since I saw plankton up-close for the first time, I have been amazed by the incredible diversity, the crazy shapes, fine details and the sheer beauty of these minute critters. They often look ...

Update 8:52 am EST, 7/21: Howard Dryden reached out to me to express his dismay at having been misquoted by the Sunday Post, which should have reported a “90% reduction in marine plankton in the ...

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 ...