Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

When most people think of parasites affecting their pets, they imagine heartworms in dogs or roundworms in cats. However, ...

His lab studies these proteins in diverse organisms, including animals, plants, fungi and single cellular protists. Letts received the presidential ... Ori-McKenney studies tube-like proteins called ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

Photosynthetic plants owe their sun-spun sugars to the chloroplast ... cytoplasm came rushing out like water from a burst dam. “We had so much backflush,” Giger said.

Even botanists can be surprised at the sheer variety of a houseplant often known only for being indestructible.

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...

The polka dot plant (or Hypoestes phyllostachya, if you’re feeling fancy) is having its moment—and for good reason. The petite showstopper’s leaves look like they’ve been kissed by a ...