Once a single-celled plankton divides into two, an internal structure called a vacuole, a kind of flexible water tank, filters in fresh water, causing the two new cells to massively grow in size.

swelling to around six times their original size in the space of ten minutes. This allows the plankton to beat gravity and migrate up to 200 metres towards the light in pursuit of sunlight for ...

"We are charting the plankton in the sea like astronomers chart the stars in the sky," says Peter Wiebe, the cruise's scientific leader, and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

Once a single-celled plankton divides into two, an internal structure called a vacuole, a kind of flexible water tank, filters in fresh water, causing the two new cells to massively grow in size.

Now, there might be an answer. Like a lot of things in nature, plankton’s ability to jump comes down to just two factors; speed and size. In a paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society ...