Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Electrical engineer Tom Zimmerman holds a long list of patents. His latest invention, developed in his lab at IBM's Almaden Research Center in south San Jose, could become a ...

Today, Holz is an electron microscopy research fellow at Boston University in neuroscientist Helen Barbas’s group. While she spends her weekdays capturing images for scientific research, her weekends ...

Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea ...

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Plankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs. They consist of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals). Their name derives from the Greek word for “drifter”, since they are too ...

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver ...

In late May, as the group of undergraduate and graduate researchers awaited their final permits to trek into the remote state-land ponds and begin collecting fish specimens, they tested their field ...