(Nanowerk News) Health food enthusiasts routinely shell out over $30 per pound of dried algae powder to whip up green smoothies to fuel their bodies. Algae can also power vehicles, but algae-based ...

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 ...

Florida's Lake Okeechobee is already half full with toxic algae, and the bloom will only grow. Fumes from the algae can cause several health complications, like lung infections. Climate warming and ...

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 ...

Time-lapse of algae growing in water. We poured pond water in a glass container and added a small piece of algae into it. The ...

Corals serve as a host to algae, which in turn produces sugars that the corals consume. Now, though, scientists have created 3D-printed coral that's even more algae-friendly than its natural ...

NASA scientists have proposed an ingenious and remarkably resourceful process to produce “clean energy” biofuels, while it cleans waste water, removes carbon dioxide from the air, retains important ...

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 ...

A new experiment showed that it’s possible to grow bacteria on Mars — breathing life into the idea of a self-sustaining mission to the Red Planet. That’s not to say astronauts will be able to plop ...

Algae is potentially a hugely exciting food source. But with a couple of notable exceptions, it has yet to set the food industry on fire, says Provectus Algae, a startup developing an automated ...

Experiments suggest that it might become possible to nourish plants without photosynthesis—a tool that could one day help feed astronauts and a crowded planet. Canola seedlings can take up acetate, a ...

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 ...