SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Electrical engineer Tom Zimmerman holds a long list of patents. His latest invention, developed in his lab at IBM's Almaden Research Center in south San Jose, could become a ...

Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They ...

With microplastics penetrating the deepest ocean trenches and making their way up the food chain, it's no surprise that plastic pollution is in the crosshairs for Earth Day 2018. IBM has now released ...

Insights from innovative device could provide a new window into secrets of microscopic ocean life and their effects on crucial planetary processes, such as carbon fixation. Like spirits passing ...

The unexpected discovery of “ghost” fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth’s oceans. Looking through a powerful microscope ...

YOU needed a microscope to see it, but there it was. After an absence of 800,000 years, Neodenticula seminae, a native of the Pacific Ocean, had showed up unexpectedly in the North Atlantic. Marine ...