This week, a lost aurora on Neptune that was first hinted at 36 years ago has finally been captured by JWST, a newly ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

Water company executives in the United Kingdom are raking in massive bonuses despite those companies being the source of ...

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: ...

Researchers knew that many species of algae produced energy-dense lipids that could be converted to biofuels, and teams around the world began to explore how to supercharge this lipid production.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

The phenomenon is even visible from space. In 2019, a group from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) detected, using satellite images, nearly 1,700 green algae blooms on the Antarctic ...

As the sun finally begins to peek through, many of us are emerging into our gardens for the first time after a long and wet winter, only to find that algae has taken hold of our garden furniture. But ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...