LC–MS is the gold standard for microcystin analysis due to its high sensitivity and specificity. However, effective sample ...

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...

LCC’s Cyanobacteria Monitoring Team includes from left to right: Lindsey Carlson, Water and Science Program Coordinator; ...

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. Bacteria consist of ...

Researchers exposed two lichen species to Mars-like atmospheric conditions for five hours—and one performed impressively.

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) some 2.4 billion years ago established the oxygen-rich atmosphere that many living things ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including ...

Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.

The earliest cyanobacteria, commonly known today as algae, emerged around 4 billion years ago as some of the first organisms to perform oxygenic photosynthesis. While modern plants use ...