[Germany] Just like land plants, algae use sunlight as an energy source. Many green algae actively move in the water; they can Continue reading The algae’s third eye
[Spain] When the last common ancestor of plants and animals populated the Earth more than 1.5 billion years ago, Continue reading Marco Polin: Synchronized cell motion without fluid interactions
The remains of tiny creatures found deep inside a mountaintop glacier in Peru are clues to the local landscape more than a millennium ago, according to a new study by Rice Univ., the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln and Ohio State Univ.
The unexpected discovery of diatoms, a type of algae, in ice cores pulled from Continue reading Ancient algae found deep in tropical glacier
Researchers has managed to film a 3D video of a they call as the “most important time in your life”. The live embryo was clearly seen shape-shifting from a sphere to a mushroom and back to a sphere again. The behavior or the Continue reading Video of Volvox embryo turning itself inside out
[USA] A tiny, unassuming little alga may hold the secret to how the sexes evolved. Continue reading Algae may hold key to origin of the sexes