Scientists have been trying to figure out how it is possible for bacteria to perceive light and react to it ever since they started using microscopes 300 years ago. Scientists have now solved this ...

A team led by physicists Steffen Sahl and Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in ...

Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert ...

Cyanobacteria with protein fibres seen through a microscope. The protein fibres are marked 'F'. We all know that we ought to eat less meat and cheese and dig into more plant-based foods. But whilst ...

Three years ago, María del Carmen Muñoz, a researcher at the University of Cordoba, was peering into an electron microscope to study the vesicles of marine cyanobacteria and found, almost accidentally ...

The most abundant photosynthetic organism in the world sheds countless little sacs into the oceans, which could be having a dramatic impact on marine ecosystems, according to a new study. These ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Water is the world in which biomolecules drift and connect. Life chemistry is aqueous chemistry — ...

This form of blue-green algae has evolved to survive coastal volcanic environments, where carbon dioxide is anything but scarce. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

A species of bacteria that lived 407 million years ago would have flourished among early land plants. Detailed 3D reconstructions of fossils discovered in Scotland are helping scientists to understand ...