This is water from a garden pond in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It contains single-celled organisms called coleps ... Each strand is an oscillating colony of bacteria. These diatoms are in another NYC ...

When the Italian scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani discovered that microorganisms ... mixed species in a drop of pond water to isolating and studying individual bacteria to sequencing all species ...

Around the world, though, there’s a growing threat to lakes: toxic bacteria which turn the water green.This is the same green as you see on stagnant ponds. It’s caused by tiny organisms called ...

Ecosystems can be terrestrial (land-based) or aquatic (water-based), ranging from tiny ponds to vast forests ... Decomposers, like fungi and bacteria, break down dead organisms, returning ...

In the global carbon cycle, microorganisms have evolved a variety of methods for fixing carbon. Researchers from Bremen and ...

Distillation effectively removes inorganic compounds such as metals (lead), nitrate, and other nuisance particles such as iron and hardness from a con- taminated water supply. The boiling process also ...

Each strand is an oscillating colony of bacteria. These diatoms are in another NYC pond. They're cells of ... Single-celled organisms first evolved around 3.5 billion years ago.