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Ecology Oct 23, 2024

Southern California's bioluminescent waves are back: It may not be too late to see the electric blue nights

For more than a week straight, photographers, scientists and adventure seekers alike have captured dazzling images of an electric blue light emitting from Southern California's waves at night.

Environment Oct 22, 2024

Researchers in a lab near Lake Erie study how toxic algae can damage health

Steven Haller remembers the look of fear on people's faces when toxic algae in Lake Erie made it into his community's water supply 10 years ago, shutting it down for two days.

Environment Oct 22, 2024

Gone in a flash: Lake Mohave's toxic algae bloom may soon let up

Riley Rackliffe follows the stinky green blobs as they travel across Lake Mohave. The aquatic biologist leads a two-man team for the National Park Service, dipping a long stick into the reservoir's problem areas and sending ...

Evolution Oct 9, 2024

A peculiar algae's genome reveals clues to reef-building and climate adaptation

A team of researchers including Department of Marine Sciences Professor Senjie Lin have for the first time sequenced the genome of Halimeda opuntia, and they found several surprising details about this strange, not-so-little ...

Agriculture Oct 1, 2024

Microbial biofertilizers and algae-based biostimulants found to boost tomato crop yield and quality

A team of researchers in Italy have shown that use of microbial biofertilizers and algae-based biostimulants can significantly enhance both the yield and quality of organic tomatoes. Published in the Journal of the Science ...

Biotechnology Sep 27, 2024

How iron and metabolic constraints can aid gene discovery for photosynthesis and biofuel production

The single-cell green alga Chromochloris zofingiensis is an emerging model organism for photosynthesis and metabolism research. Previous research has shown that with the addition of glucose, Chromochloris zofingiensis shuts ...

Ecology Sep 10, 2024

What's really 'fueling' harmful algae in Florida's lake Okeechobee?

Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis) have emerged in the lake and have been flushed into ...

Environment Aug 30, 2024

A California lake turned pink this week—in the name of science

Stockton's McLeod Lake is looking pretty in pink this week.

Cell & Microbiology Aug 27, 2024

Studies provide key insights into chloroplast protein import system

Two studies published in the journal Cell shed light on the assembly, function and evolutionary diversity of the chloroplast protein import system.

Evolution Aug 20, 2024

'Amazon' algae shed light on what happens to populations when females switch to asexual reproduction

Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Kobe University discovered populations of female brown algae that reproduce from unfertilized gametes and thrive without males. In a study published in Nature Ecology ...

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