From keeping oceans healthy to being used as an alternative to plastics, researchers believe seaweed has a multitude of uses ...

Red algae called Digenea simplex is lining a long stretch of the beach and piling up as high as 4 feet in some areas. The thick, hairy red algae grows in large mats that look a lot like stinky ...

A bioluminescent algae that appears pinkish-red in the day and glows blue when disturbed has appeared across Tasmania's south-eastern coastline. Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin, a biologist and world-leading ...

The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host ...

Red tide is caused by high concentrations of a toxin-producing microscopic algae, called K. brevis, that is found in the Gulf of Mexico. Tests conducted Dec. 5 confirmed red tide at Seagate ...

It's slightly larger than a 5-liter water bottle, and is whizzing around the Earth at a speed of 7.5 kilometers per second.

Researchers hope to turn algae, which piles up along the Portuguese coast and would otherwise end up in landfills, into a bioplastic that decomposes and has fertilising qualities that can be used on ...

Red tide comes from an organism that occurs naturally in the ocean. But people can make these harmful algal blooms worse.