Brown algae is a common problem in many fish tanks, especially those that have been recently set up. It’s not dangerous to fish but can turn your beautiful aquarium into an ugly mess.

Compartments of consistently sized, tightly packed microspheres are what makes some brown algae shimmer like opal. The Kobe University discovery not only sheds light on the mechanism behind the ...

Compartments of consistently sized, tightly packed microspheres are what makes some brown algae shimmer like opal. The Kobe University discovery not only sheds light on the mechanism behind the alga’s ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany, have discovered a conserved developmental pattern known as the hourglass model in brown algae, providing more evidence that the ...

Covering over 70% of Earth's surface, the oceans are home to countless life forms that maintain ecological balance and ...

Brown algae removes 550 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually and stores it in its slime for up to thousands of years, a study has found. While it primarily uses the carbon ...

Fucoid brown algae inject fucoidan carbon into the ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2022; 120 (1) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2210561119 Cite This Page : ...

Brown algae can even outcompete terrestrial forests in the long run to remove large amounts of CO2 from the global cycle, thereby counteracting global warming. Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025.

By showing that brown algae with an independent origin of multicellularity also have a transcriptomic hourglass pattern, Lotharukpong et al. establish that the transcriptomic hourglass is indeed a ...

Brown pelicans are filling up Southern California wildlife rehabilitation centers. Many adult birds have been poisoned in a major toxic algae bloom, and now young birds are starving too.