Fossilized microscopic algae offer insights into historic environmental conditions and provide a clearer picture of how the ...

Ocean acidification doesn’t just erode calcium carbonate shells. It can also slow the rate at which tiny algae called diatoms build their beautiful, intricate silica cell walls. Thinner walls mean ...

The bedrock of the ocean's food chain, on which whales, sharks, and octopi ultimately rely, are tiny bits of photosynthetic algae called diatoms. They come in thousands of shapes and are imperceptible ...

There's more than meets the eye in the creations of artist Osamu Oku. His breathtaking arrangements of iridescent patterns glimmering on a black background are sheer beauty that can only be glimpsed ...

Diploneis is a large taxon of diatom with as many as 550 species. Among diatoms, it has perhaps the most complex heavily silicified valve structure. The fossilized remains of these unique algal ...

(Nanowerk News) Stiff microbial films often coat medical devices, household items and infrastructure such as the inside of water supply pipes, and can lead to dangerous infections. Researchers have ...

Diatoms – unicellular organisms – have long been known to science, but their overwhelming appetite for nitrate is a new discovery made in a global survey. Diatoms -- unicellular organisms -- have long ...

Diatoms, chrysophyte scales and cysts, and the siliceous plates of thecoamoebae were studied from the surface sediments of 20 freshwater habitats in Fennoscandia. The study sites are distributed along ...

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