Microbial life on Earth still holds surprises. A recent study overturns our certainties about the emergence of oxygen ...

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...

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LCC’s Cyanobacteria Monitoring Team includes from left to right: Lindsey Carlson, Water and Science Program Coordinator; ...

The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

Everyone is familiar with the light dome that shows from afar where cities are brightly lit at night. Artificial light that ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

The Falmouth Pond Coalition, a group of teachers, physicians, geochemists, retirees and nature-enthusiasts, filled the hall ...

CELINA - In just a few weeks, area treatment trains that filter out nutrients responsible for toxic blue-green algal blooms in Grand Lake will be turned on, and officials are shooting for the stars i ...

People who have disrupted circadian rhythms suffer all kinds of negative effects, including higher rates of obesity, sleep ...

New research suggests that certain bacteria began using oxygen nearly one billion years earlier than previously thought. The ...