Arranged diatoms, a single-celled algae, on a microscope slide in the Cal Academy of Sciences Diatom Collection. Credit: California Academy of Sciences Geology/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When you think of ...
Biologist Laura Beer and I were bent over a microscope at the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, checking out a zinging, banging battlefield of single-celled green algae and sunny, UFO-shaped ...
A slew of popular-science books have set out to convince readers that some overlooked, obscure or generally disdained category of thing is actually wildly important, whether it’s salt, garbage or ...