BALTIMORE (WJZ) --Baltimore's Inner Harbor draws a lot of attention, but not in the detail a new project could bring. "There's a new instrument that's come out that's essentially an underwater ...

Studying life in the ocean is never without its challenges, while some species can be studied via drone, or by opportunistic citizen scientists, studying microscopic life presents even more problems.

A new handheld microscope lets scientists monitor coral health in real time, underwater, without harming reefs.

The microscope is already yielding new insights into the relationship between corals and the symbiotic microalgae that support their health, revealing for the first time how well individual algae ...

Scientists will use the instrument to explore how climate change is affecting the ability of coral to survive.

Green Algae Genome Gives History Lesson (4 of 7) Reports and Proceedings. American ... The images were generated using a Leica DM6000B microscope with a Leica DFC350FX camera.

When green algae "can't breathe," they get rid of excess energy through the production of hydrogen. Biologists have found out how the cells notice the absence of oxygen. For this, they need the ...

This slimy green algae is far more complex than the type that helped fuel the formation of modern creatures, but it's a distant relative. Wikimedia Commons In our planet's infancy, life was pretty ...

Green algae are members of the plant kingdom that emerged at least a billion years ago, but the new finding, which shows that a diversity of modern-looking algae species existed earlier than ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...