Skoltech researchers reported another breakthrough in their investigations of diatoms, the fascinating single-cell algae that may hold many secrets to advanced technological solutions emulating nature ...

Diatoms turns a weird Victorian art craze into a solid competitive board game that also has a solo campaign. Read Keith Law's ...

video: With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), lake ecologist Jasmine Saros and her team from the University of Maine are plying the lake waters of southwestern Greenland, gathering ...

The mystery sheen covering the Muskingum River in both Muskingum and Coshocton counties is a diatom algae bloom, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday. Diatom blooms do not create ...

Diatoms are single-celled algae that possess a rigid, transparent shell made of silica that is patterned at the nanoscale. This diatom shell looks strikingly similar to a photonic crystal. A biofuel ...

Scientists have confirmed that viruses can kill marine algae called diatoms and that diatom die-offs near the ocean surface may provide nutrients and organic matter for recycling by other algae, ...

Long before humankind invented silicon-based solar cells, nature had already found a way to use silica to harness the power of the sun -- in the form of algae. Researchers are now using diatoms and ...

The secret ingredient for fossil preservation at a famous French site wouldn’t be found in a Julia Child cookbook. It was a sticky goo made by microalgae, researchers suggest. An analysis of roughly ...

No matter how useful a certain human innovation may be, nature has usually beaten us to it by millions of years, and more often than not done a better job of it too. A Yale team has looked to nature ...

(WHTM) It was used in ancient times, but wasn’t “discovered” until the 1830s. It’s a mineral, but it’s produced by plants. It can be safe for humans to consume, or it can be toxic. It’s used as a ...