For several years, certain beaches in the Caribbean, Mexico, West Africa, and even French Guiana have been invaded by massive ...

Brown algae is a common problem in many fish tanks, especially those that have been recently set up. It’s not dangerous to fish but can turn your beautiful aquarium into an ugly mess.

Dermatologists are prescribing algae skincare that repairs damaged skin at cellular level. Why marine extracts beat synthetic compounds.

The brown alga Sporochnus dotyi reflects shimmering green and blue light when illuminated from above. An example of structural coloring, the effect has been discovered by scuba divers and is not ...

Fucoid brown algae inject fucoidan carbon into the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 120 (1) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2210561119 Cite This Page : ...

In a study titled "A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae," published in Nature, the research team investigated whether the hourglass pattern observed in animals, plants, and fungi also exists ...

Compartments of consistently sized, tightly packed microspheres are what makes some brown algae shimmer like opal. The Kobe University discovery not only sheds light on the mechanism behind the alga’s ...

Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.

Brown algae typically lives in temperate and cold marine regions, and there are up to 2,000 different species of it. For the study, published this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The brown algae is blanketing shorelines from Puerto Rico to Guyana, disrupting tourism, killing wildlife, and emitting toxic gases. One school in Martinique was temporarily closed due to the fumes.

By showing that brown algae with an independent origin of multicellularity also have a transcriptomic hourglass pattern, Lotharukpong et al. establish that the transcriptomic hourglass is indeed a ...

Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for ...