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 ...

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 ...

Phytoplankton use sunlight to make energy and nearly half the oxygen we breathe, a new tool improves our ability to measure how individual phytoplankton cells are using energy ROCKVILLE, MD – ...

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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Anila Ajayan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vermont. In this postdoc portrait article, she discusses her work in freshwater phytoplankton ecology. My interest in research began ...