Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but new research shows they also act as powerful regulators of the ...

Learn how coral reefs drive daily changes in ocean microbes — a process that shapes how nutrients and energy move through ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Scientists have discovered several very rare species of microorganisms, some of which have never been seen before and others which have escaped the curious eyes of scientists for over a hundred years.

From lemons to ham, salt is a handy food preservative. But researchers studying some really old salt crystals found them preserving something else - evidence of life. KATHY BENISON: There are little ...

Inspired by the mechanism behind light-sensitive sunglasses, a team led by a North Carolina State University researcher invented a family of fluorescent dyes to illuminate biological processes at a ...

Most ocean life remains to be discovered. Because fish and many other animals that live in the ocean often have larvae or other, microscopic life stages that drift freely in ocean water, counting ...

From embryonic development in fruit flies to a Vermeer made of dog kidneys, the microscopic world has many awesome sights. Reading time 2 minutes Nikon just announced the winners of its 14th annual ...

Fabian Weston makes videos of tiny organisms filmed under a microscope. One of his videos provided the missing piece to link 400-year-old fossils with living euglenoids. Euglenoids may be some of the ...

Illustration showing the overview of seaweed-associated microbes, their beneficial functions functions that shape seaweed health and resilience against pathogens and environmental change. The right ...

Nikon has just announced the winners of its 15th annual Small World in Motion Video Competition, and the results are astonishing. From the self-pollination of a tiny thymeleaf speedwell to volvox ...