Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Even plankton refuse to clean up water contaminated by human poop, reveals new research. The tiny, aquatic creatures are ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

While scientists assume that the plankton are involved in some amount ... focusing on SAR11 bacteria. Metagenome sequences were collected alongside measurements of various environmental conditions ...

Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans ...

The department said the Louisiana Oyster Task Force and local harvesters were notified of the closure on Tuesday, and that it ...

Strategy for discovering protist – bacterial interactions in the ocean. The strategy relied on working at-sea where uncultivated cells could be interrogated without any form of fixation. The cartoon ...

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...