and it’s likely that female algae evolved male traits—not the other way around. Natalia Mesa was previously an intern at The Scientist and now freelances. She has a PhD in neuroscience from the ...

Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas ... to the types of developmental mechanisms and traits they have evolved. For instance, by definition every ...

Algal proteins offer a sustainable, nutrient-rich alternative to traditional proteins, with benefits for food security, ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it. It's May. The sun is up and the heat from that distant ...

The research has been published in Phycologia, an international journal on algae by the International ... “Physical characteristics alone are not sufficient for species identification.” ...