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.

As the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to accelerate, trees, plants and even the ocean’s tiny plankton ...

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 ...

Plankton are often too small to see without a microscope, but not always. Jellyfish are plankton, though a different type from phytoplankton, and there are jellyfish in the Hudson — moon jellies ...

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

Trees, plants and tiny plankton in the ocean all convert CO2 into ... National climate reporter Chase Cain traveled to ...

With my work, I hope to give people a glimpse in an unseen universe, just around the corner. Jan van IJken using a high-powered microscope to film living plankton.

ultra-high-speed cameras and the latest developments in microscopy all allow us to reveal a fresh view of the lives of plants and their incredible beauty Of course, plants don’t act alone.