Have you ever seen the TV show The Odd Couple? The sitcom from the 1970s (and its 2015 reboot) follows the ups and downs of two very different roommates. There are plenty of odd couples in the ...

To the armchair naturalist, this finding is pretty interesting on its own. To the people cultivating algae for biofuels, this finding is more than pretty interesting - it could change the way algae ...

Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, cuckoos do it – cheating to score a free ride is a well-documented behavior by many animals, even plants. But microscopically small, single-celled algae? Yes, they do ...

Throughout the world’s oceans in global nutrient cycles, food chains, and climate, as well as increasingly in human-made industrial processes, a diverse set of planktonic microbes, such as algae, play ...