D onald Trump has a new nemesis, with a name worthy of a supervillain: Scenedesmus.

A group of scientists has discovered a species of algae that is capable of being selectively bred and could help create a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Algae has already been used to produce ...

Naturally occurring bacteria in water is thriving on increased nutrients from agriculture and global warming ...

The dyes used in the clothing industry almost always come from fossil-fuel-based chemicals. In the long term, this will not ...

Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for other ...

High-resolution scanning electron microscope images of fossil cell coverings of nannoplankton highlighting holes that would have allowed flagella and haptonema to emerge from the cell and draw in food ...

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A slew of popular-science books have set out to convince readers that some overlooked, obscure or generally disdained category of thing is actually wildly important, whether it’s salt, garbage or ...