Macroalgae is shown to be a major global contributor to carbon sequestration.

Corals use sugar from their symbiotic algal partners to control them by recycling nitrogen from their own ammonium waste.

Accounting for the quality of energy needed to run a desalination plant shows benefits of using waste heat.

A Professor of Marine Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has received the 2019 Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology from the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Cultivated date palms have co-evolved with desert bacteria for so long that their roots attract the microbes that provide the best chance for a long and healthy life.

Microplastics in the water column are ingested by clams and become attached to their shells.

When a thin layer of water is squeezed between two hydrophobic surfaces, the laws of classical physics break down.

The dynamics behind microbial communities in granular-based wastewater treatment systems.

The colonization of tomato plants with a beneficial desert root fungus protects against effects of salt stress.

Today on World Food Day, a team of Plant Scientists from King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) has begun a major project to improve global date palm production and protection.

Protein-folded DNA nanostructures offer a new building material for biotechnology.

Discarded PET bottles could find a new life in the chemical industry.

A protein, with a name reminiscent of legendary Greek sailors, has an unexpected role inside the human nucleus.

Factors influencing the tolerance of barley to saline soils have been uncovered using an advanced robust statistical technique.

Plant scientist Salim Al-Babili and his team are working across many fronts to save sub-Saharan African cereal crops from a menacing weed.

Discovery of signaling intermediary could lead to more pest-resistant crops.

No evidence of infection found in the bacterial community around shark wounds.

Identifying genes that confer resistance to leaf rust infections could help generate durably resistant cereal crops.

Medical diagnostic device extracts energy from sugars naturally present in the body to drive its glucose-sensing circuitry.