Every experiment has to start somewhere. This one began with a container full of dying microbes, and the five cute, pink ciliates called blepharisma that James, our master of microscopes, accidentally ...

(via Journey to the Microcosmos) Our master of microscopes is always looking for rare ciliates that live in areas low in oxygen. But when he puts those samples under a growth light, his tubes quickly ...

(via Journey to the Microcosmos) In the northeast Atlantic Ocean, plankton populations aren’t looking like they used to. And at the center of it all are tiny, photosynthetic bacteria called ...

Levenson (Money for Nothing), a professor of science writing at MIT, delivers a penetrating chronicle of humanity’s fight against microorganisms. Among other milestones, he describes how Dutch ...

If we were to write a fable to get this moral across, it would have to star the freshwater cnidarian called the hydra. Because in the hydra, the question of butts connects to the ambiguities of ...