As primary producers at the base of marine food webs, diatoms are key indicators of environmental change, providing critical insight into the health and resilience of the Salish Sea bioregion. A team ...

The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual cells to arthropods, diatoms and a zebrafish brain ...

Study finds that single-cell algae that make up the base of the food chain have been almost entirely replaced by a different ...

Hidden algae communities beneath farms may play a major role in soil health, water retention, and natural nitrogen cycling, scientists found.

Rachel Boesenberg, associate curator at the Anchorage Museum, and Ryan Kenny, the museum's deputy director and chief ...

But new research from the Cowichan Estuary Restoration and Conservation Association, in partnership with British Columbia’s ...

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The electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons to create an image of the target. It has much higher magnification or resolving power than a normal light microscope. Although ...

NASA satellites have captured a massive blue-green bloom forming along the shallow coastlines of New Jersey, Delaware, ...

Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the microscopes ...