Dinoflagellates: Blooms, Bleaching, and Bioluminescence

A story about whirling flagella, sick corals…

How big can a cell get?

A discussion about life and its limits (and a list of super cool cells)

Microbe Profiles: Didinium — Carnivorous Pond-Dwellers Used as Models for Predator-Prey Dynamics

Microbe Profiles: Suctorians

Learn the story of a microbe straight out of science fiction

Microbe Profiles: Deinococcus radiodurans

Read all about Conan the Radiation Loving Bacterium

The Osage Orange Keeps the Time — a walk through Indiana

Microbe Profiles: Rotifers

Animals live in the tundra, the forests, and in drops of water

On Phages — A War of Worlds

In the War of The Worlds, the breathtaking science fiction novel first released in the late 1800s, martians…

Microbe Profiles: Tintinnids

Eukarya:Ciliophora:Spirotrichea:Choreotrichi:Ciliate

Here’s why scientific studies seem to change every week

Why science is so wishy-washy