Nikon announced the winners of their annual Small World in Motion competition today and the winning video is a detailed look at the microscopic creatures that help termites digest wood. Still from ...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will support a major effort to synthesize decades of research on protists—microscopic organisms that play a vital role in aquatic ecosystems but remain ...

Tiny unicellular creatures called protists could keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere by gobbling up bacteria that emit CO2, researchers say. Now, a study finds that a few simple measures of a ...

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but new research shows they also act as powerful regulators of the ...

New London, Conn. — A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will support a major effort to synthesize decades of research on protists—microscopic organisms that play a vital role in aquatic ...

Holly Bik, now a researcher at the UC Davis Genome Center, and colleagues found that though beaches impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill appeared clean there were long-lasting changes in ...

Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it out). She showed me this video of a Dinoflagellate, ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding eukaryotic ...

The forms of protists are as varied as they are ethereal, and all are invisible to the naked eye. For the past seven years, Kevin J. Carpenter has been researching and photographing some of these ...

Researchers have combined mathematical models, marine science, and metagenomics to answer a decades-old question - why are there so many species in the ocean? Ocean plankton are the drifters of the ...