Microalgae‑based architecture could soon come to Western Australia. A team from Murdoch University is working on a project to integrate microalgae-filled photobioreactors into everyday structures like ...

An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has developed an innovative method for reconstructing the past of corals and ...

Land plants—such as mosses, ferns and trees—are some of the most structurally complex photosynthesizing organisms on Earth. But their evolutionary story is deeply tied to their ancestors: simpler ...

Scientists now believe the earliest plants were not leafy or rooted, but microscopic green algae drifting in oceans roughly ...

Green algae represent a diverse group of organisms whose evolutionary history is central to our understanding of plant terrestrialisation. Foundational work has demonstrated that a major evolutionary ...

Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment called siphonein acts like a natural sun shield, protecting the algae’s ...