In the Sahara Desert along the coastline in Morocco, more than 300 miles from the nearest city, a green pond now sits in the middle of the sand. It’s a test site for Brilliant Planet, a startup that ...

CORONADO, Calif. — Do you own an aquarium at home? If you do, you're familiar with Culerpa Prolifera. It can be found in pet stores, on Amazon, Etsy, and now in the San Diego Bay where it doesn't ...

The strain of algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, being used for the experiment. In the dark? That’s not how we normally think of plants being grown. But it’s a method that could be used to grow algae ...

Imperial Valley in southern California is home to the country's only major microalgae farms. There, the algae grows best during the summer months. Good weather isn't the only thing algae needs to ...

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2 million federal grant to identify and test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. For the first time, scientists say they have ...

Sarah Loftus receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Health food enthusiasts routinely shell out over US$30 per pound for dried algae powder to whip up green smoothies to fuel their ...

To many, algae is little more than pond scum, a nuisance to swimmers and a frustration to boaters. But to a growing community of scientists and investors in Southern California, there is oil locked in ...

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While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

The time it takes to grow new skin for burns victims could be improved thanks to a new method of cell cultivation using algae, developed by University of Queensland researchers. Subscribe to our ...