Microscopic plankton are at the heart of the ocean’s food chain, feeding much bigger animals like whales. However, not much is known about how single-celled phytoplankton–most of which don’t ...

For the last 200 years, scientists have studied life, including plankton, in a two-dimensional plane, trapped in small cover ...

The science behind these luminous waves traces back to microscopic plankton called dinoflagellates, single-celled organisms ...

Many plankton journey from the cold ... "It can happen quite suddenly, so if you sleep by the microscope for 10 minutes, you might miss it." This video shows dividing Pyrocystis noctiluca.

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

Supported by By Veronique Greenwood The ocean is filled with microscopic creatures that thrive in the sunshine. These bacteria and plankton periodically clump up with detritus, like waste produced ...

They have no teeth and feed on microscopic plankton with their huge, wide-open mouths. They migrate between Scotland and waters around Madeira and the Canary Islands off west Africa. Until 1994 ...

A remarkable image of a coccolithophore is one of the 12 finalists in the 2024 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize ...

Director Hong Jong-chan's latest project, Mr. Plankton, carries a profound message: every life has inherent value, purpose, and meaning. The Netflix original Korean series follows Hae-jo and Jae ...

"It can happen quite suddenly, so if you sleep by the microscope for 10 minutes, you might miss it." To test what effects this rapid growth might have on the plankton, the research team utilized ...