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 periods.

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 ...

Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. view more Credit: Benoit Gallet and Martin Oeggerli, Micronaut ...

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 samples are transferred onto slides and slid under a microscope, ready for counting and identification. With up to 10,000 diatoms on a slide, counting can take a while, he says. When he comes ...

/ Sci-Fi Visions / Diatoms / Electron Microscope / Futruism Video 12.17.15, 5:08 PM EST by Jolene Creighton This may look like nothing more than tiny specks of dusty material, but it's life.

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope ...

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 ...