Sloth hair is unique among mammals in that it contains microcracks, making it perfectly suited for algae growth. In fact, when viewed under a microscope, you can see algae living inside the cracks.

The invading algae filaments can be a twentieth of a millimeter—similar to the width of a human hair—and the symbiotic ... the Benthic Underwater Microscope, the first instrument powerful ...

Single-celled algae ... Underwater Microscope (BUM) won't replace work done in labs. It can only capture high-resolution images of objects about a tenth of the width of human hair (about 10 ...

Since the discovery of the microscope over 350 years ago ... about 1/100th the size of a human hair. In preliminary runs, the lens has already proven to be a game changer. While testing it ...

The hair bases are seen in the centre of the image, inside the dome-shaped entrance. Mr Siwanowicz also won third prize for his artful image of green algae desmids. This year’s winners come from ...

where Dr Eileen Bresnan identified the coccolithophore using an electron microscope. The tiny cell is just five micrometres in diameter. A human hair is about 80 to 100 micrometres The algae have ...

4Deep Inwater Imaging wants to use its new underwater microscope to detect signals of fluorescence from harmful algae before a full, potentially dangerous algae bloom appears. (Atlantic Canada ...

"There's a new instrument that's come out that's essentially an underwater microscope," says Dr. Allen ... and sometimes lead to fish kills. But toxic algae is more of a concern when it enters ...