SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Electrical engineer Tom Zimmerman holds a long list of patents. His latest invention, developed in his lab at IBM's Almaden Research Center in south San Jose, could become a ...

Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They ...

AN eye-opening short film has revealed the secrets of the tiny sea creatures that are crucial for sustaining human life. The hidden secrets of the tiny creatures that are crucial for sustaining human ...

Today, Holz is an electron microscopy research fellow at Boston University in neuroscientist Helen Barbas’s group. While she spends her weekdays capturing images for scientific research, her weekends ...

Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea shells, new research shows. Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rate in ancient sea ...

The ability of some plankton and bacteria to build an extra natural layer of nanoparticle-like armor has inspired chemists to devise a startlingly simple way to give drug bearing polymer vesicles ...

Plankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs. They consist of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals). Their name derives from the Greek word for “drifter”, since they are too ...

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