Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about sessions they attended--including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art, ...

Algae are an eclectic group of organisms that can be found throughout the world. Because they are so diverse, there are four main criteria that are used to help put them into groups for classification ...

Page from ‘Photographs of British Algae’ (1843–53) by Anna Atkins (all images courtesy the New York Public Library) In later years, she produced albums on flowering plants and ferns, continuing to ...

In a quiet corner of the Victoria and Albert Museum, beyond the sculpture gallery, hangs the first living addition to its permanent collection — a large green bionic chandelier called Exhale. Its 70 ...

Microbiologists Rachael Morgan-Kiss and Xin Wang recently received a $750,000 grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to research how Antarctic algae use an alternative pathway during photosynthesis ...

Campus News Art professor’s exhibition in Spain addresses algae and climate change UC Santa Cruz art professor Jennifer Parker believes that algae are an “unsung hero of the planet”–noting that these ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Most people probably don't think of growing algae as a work of art. But a new art exhibit at Schmidt Art Center on the campus of ...

Marin Sawa could take the scum in your pond and turn it into art — and maybe even fuel. Sawa is a British architect and materiologist, and she creates elaborate sculptures out of farmed algae, tubes, ...

Anna Atkins, “ Alaria esculenta,” from Part XII of Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1849-50), cyanotype (courtesy Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and ...

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