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 ...

Tiny creatures at the bottom of the food chain called diatoms suck up nearly a quarter of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide, yet research suggests they could become less able to "sequester" that ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In Victorian England, a very curious art form flourished: making intricate patterns from the microalgae known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Scientists at Stanford have discovered that single-celled Arctic algae can actively move at temperatures as low as –15 degree Celsius (5 °F), the coldest motion ever recorded in a eukaryotic cell. The ...

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 ...

Whew! Time for a break from all this philosophical pondering! Today I'm going to instead celebrate the nitty-gritty — organisms so nitty-gritty that when they die they are used in flea powder, ...

(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 ...