LOWER MERION – Harriton High School Senior Ravi Balasubramanian has been named a Top 300 Scholar in the 79th Regeneron Science Talent Search – the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and ...

Heat turns colonial algae into hotties. When algae find themselves in hot water, the normally asexual organisms get all stressed out and turn sexual. Blame it on the free radicals, says a team of ...

Volvox barberi are multicellular green algae that form colonies of 10,000 to 50,000 cells. In an abstract presented at the March 2018 meeting of the American Physical Society by Ravi Balasubramanian, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When single-celled organisms such as sperm crack their whip-like appendages called flagella, the beating sets them in motion. But in certain colonies of green algae, flagella also ...

OOSPORES OF “VoLVOX MINOR.”—Dr. Kirchner, in the recent part of Cohn's “Beiträge zur Biologic der Pflanzen,” describes the germination of the oospores, and in this supplements the important ...

Algae colonies, such as the Volvox one shown here, are propelled through water by the coordinated movements of their whip-like flagella. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...

Morphogenetic mutants of the colonial green alga, Volvox carteri f. nagariensis, were induced by chemical mutagenesis. The 68 independent mutants are classified into 12 readily identifiable phenotypes ...

When algae find themselves in hot water, the normally asexual organisms get all stressed out and turn sexual. Blame it on the free radicals, says a team of researchers. Heat turns colonial algae into ...