Heather Mills has told how algae – or pond slime – could be the future of food in a world threatened by climate change. The ex-wife of Beatle Sir Paul McCartney runs the VBites vegan food company ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- It has become hard for visitors to tell where the grass ends and water begins at Birmingham's A layer of green algae stretches across substantial portions of the man-made lakes, ...

After more than 300 years of looking, scientists have discovered how bacteria 'see' their world - and it's in a remarkably similar way to us. Researchers have found that a type of single-celled pond ...

The green matter, Chlorella, is a simple micro-organism, easy to grow in the laboratory. Chlorella produces a range of unsaturated acids which can be marked radioactively and used to explore the ...