Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.

A supplement contextualizes key advances in light microscopy over 400 years ... three year quest to examine how global warming affects plankton and thus, ultimately, global oxygen production.

Image caption, This is one type of plankton viewed through a microscope. In fact, many scientists believe that these tiny plants and animals are amongst the most important in our seas. They may ...

We need to conduct parallel studies which apply novel methods alongside standard plankton monitoring to calibrate, align and verify novel data types against standard microscopy methods to ensure ...

They gruesomely make their way into the plankton and consume it from within ... but that same world looks very different underneath a microscope. This is the unseen world This video was captured ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...