How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Many have claimed to see a UFO or have an encounter with an alien, but what do the scientists have to say? Here's what ...

While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...

The organisms that honour dictators ... body that sets rules for naming plant species voted to eliminate some scientific names that members deemed offensive. The International Botanical Congress ...

Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis draws its name from the Yaqona people, whose ancestral lands encompassed Yaquina Bay. Yaqona referred to the bay and river that made up much of their homeland ...

On Earth, dimethyl sulfide is produced only by living organisms, and not just any organisms: It comes from algae, precisely the kind of life you might expect to find on a planet that is covered in ...

To reach the accepted classification for scientific discovery, the observations would have to cross the five-sigma threshold, meaning there would be below a 0.00006% probability they occurred by ...

Scenes from the dedication ceremony naming the Casselberry Post Office after Joe Kittinger, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Kittinger, who passed away in 2022, was a decorated veteran, former prisoner of ...

As a result, the phantom term was created. Decades later, “vegetative electron microscopy” turned up in some Iranian scientific papers. In 2017 and 2019, two papers used the term in English ...

The Australian National Botanic Gardens is actively involved in scientific research into Australia’s ... Areas of research include taxonomy and systematics (the describing and naming of organisms and ...