The first-place winner of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition captures a self-pollinating flower. Jay McClellan via Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition Nikon has revealed ...

Before plants evolved, vegetative life consisted of primitive green algae living in the sea. Like plants, these algae ...

Above image: A branching Acropora yongei coral. This 40x magnified image was captured using a handheld digital microscope. Credit: Angus Thies. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

The oldest green seaweed on record, the ancestor of all land plants, lived about 1 billion years ago, a new study finds. Scientists have discovered the fossils of what may be the oldest green algae ...

Time-lapse of algae growing in water. We poured pond water in a glass container and added a small piece of algae into it. The container was then placed under a growing light. The algae spreads quickly ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, cuckoos do it – cheating to score a free ride is a well-documented behavior by many animals, even plants. But microscopically small, single-celled algae? Yes, they do ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Quadriciliate zoospores of Draparnaldia and biciliate zoospores of Chaetomorpha have been examined using our previous methods. New features ...

Freshwater and marine algal blooms can be harmful – even fatal – to wildlife and humans alike, so the sooner that authorities can predict them, the better. A cheap and portable new device developed at ...

Cyanobacteria with protein fibres seen through a microscope. The protein fibres are marked 'F'. We all know that we ought to eat less meat and cheese and dig into more plant-based foods. But whilst ...