While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

CORONADO, Calif. — Do you own an aquarium at home? If you do, you're familiar with Culerpa Prolifera. It can be found in pet stores, on Amazon, Etsy, and now in the San Diego Bay where it doesn't ...

Time-lapse of algae growing in water. We poured pond water in a glass container and added a small piece of algae into it. The ...

Learn about algae and how its used in everyday consumer products. Algae are aquatic plants that can be a single cell, or a 20-foot long seaweed. Algae extracts are ingredients in an enormous number of ...

Corals serve as a host to algae, which in turn produces sugars that the corals consume. Now, though, scientists have created 3D-printed coral that's even more algae-friendly than its natural ...

In the Sahara Desert along the coastline in Morocco, more than 300 miles from the nearest city, a green pond now sits in the middle of the sand. It’s a test site for Brilliant Planet, a startup that ...

The time it takes to grow new skin for burns victims could be improved thanks to a new method of cell cultivation using algae, developed by University of Queensland researchers. Subscribe to our ...