Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. Diatoms are too small to see with the naked eye, yet they ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment. They fix up to 20% of the Earth's CO2. A research team at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has now ...

The silicate framework of a diatom does not conduct electricity. For a scanning electron microscope image it would therefore have to be coated, which can result in details of the structure not ...

In his colourized electron micrographs, faecal bacteria resemble thin spaghetti, silica-walled diatoms look like cubes of breakfast cereal and a segmented tardigrade resembles a curled-up, tubby ...

Scanning electron micrograph of the marine diatom, Triceratium. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on Facebook, Twitter and Google +.

DIATOMACEOUS earth, as mined in Lompoc, California, and other sites in the south-west United States, is made up of the siliceous skeletons of diatoms which lived in the Miocene and Pliocene ...

Since microscope photography was invented, scientists have collected images of diatoms for artistic purposes as much as science. So far, Patrick has identified 127 species of diatoms in the river, ...

This may look like nothing more than tiny specks of dusty material, but it's life. These are diatoms, single-celled organisms that are rather remarkable.

This GIF, composed of images from a scanning electron microscope, begins with a shot of an amphipod, a small crustacean. From there, it zooms in in in (you can see the scale constantly adjusting ...