Did you recently hear news that Earth’s oldest pigments were hot pink? That’s not quite right. When they were in living bacteria a billion years ago, they were performing photosynthesis – and green.
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Following NASA’s latest discovery of organic matter on the red planet, new findings in a salt lake in California could point to where to look for alien life.
A toxic chemical produced by algae and linked to motor neuron disease has been detected in NSW rivers. Its presence - long suspected but now confirmed - could be linked to a disease hotspot in the Riverina.
The possible culprits are: a sudden algae bloom; a change in pool alkalinity; or a chemical reaction in the water. How do these cause a change in the colour of the water?
With El Niño ramping up, Australia is in for a long, hot, dry summer - perfect conditions for blue-green algae. And that innocuous-looking pond scum can pack a toxic punch if you’re not careful.
Low oxygen levels in the oceans can dramatically change the community of organisms that live there – but new techniques to re-introduce oxygen have given a breath of life to a Swedish fjord.
Chemicals are all around us. They are crucial in all manner of industries, from agriculture to food to cosmetics. Most people give little thought to how these chemicals are made – and certainly very few…
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Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology; Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Global Water Academy, York University, Canada
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Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health, Bowling Green State University
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
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Research scientist, Australian National Algae Culture Collection, CSIRO
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor - Australian Rivers Institute, and Dean - Research Infrastructure, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Aberdeen
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Executive Director, Fraunhofer IME
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Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences, Carleton University
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Professor, Department of Biology, State University of New York at New Paltz
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Associate Professor of Geology, Iowa State University
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Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle