Scientists at Stanford have discovered that single-celled Arctic algae can actively move at temperatures as low as –15 degree Celsius (5 °F), the coldest motion ever recorded in a eukaryotic cell. The ...

If you were to slice a chunk of Arctic sea ice and peer at it under a microscope, you probably wouldn’t expect much. Frozen water, trapped sediment, perhaps a few still-living microbes locked in ...

Single-celled algae in the ocean known as coccolithophores play an important role in the marine carbon cycle when they take ...

From freshwater ponds to clear coastal waters, single-celled algae play a vital role in sustaining life on Earth. Courtesy David R. Nelson, NYU Abu Dhabi. From freshwater ponds to clear coastal waters ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown ...

They were said to come from outer space, and there were even claims that they were actually bacteria and that they undermined the very definition of viruses. Giant viruses, nicknamed “giruses,” ...