Nikon announced the winners of their annual Small World in Motion competition today and the winning video is a detailed look at the microscopic creatures that help termites digest wood. Still from ...

Eating and being eaten is a normal process in nature. These predator–prey dynamics help to stabilize ecosystems. It ensures that individual species do not become too abundant, controls their ...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will support a major effort to synthesize decades of research on protists—microscopic organisms that play a vital role in aquatic ecosystems but remain ...

GA, UNITED STATES, May 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — A new study has revealed how unseen microbial alliances in the soil could hold the key to fighting devastating ...

Scientists testing a new method of sequencing single cells have unexpectedly changed our understanding of the rules of genetics. The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding eukaryotic ...

Is there a more deceivingly attractive collection of organisms than the protists? At a microscopic level, the protists are some of the most beautiful cells on earth, but what a collection of woes they ...

In a lake or river, between one and 10 million bacteria live in just 1 ml of water. Such a high density is necessary because bacteria permanently break down organic compounds and pollutants and thus ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- A new study has revealed how unseen microbial alliances in the soil could hold the key to fighting devastating crop diseases. Researchers discovered that when ...