Researchers are now using diatoms and other single-celled algae as templates for developing tomorrow's solar cells. ... An alternative is to use common aquarium salt added to distilled water.

Slimy brown algae not only survived a wild ride into the stratosphere via a volcanic ash cloud, they landed on distant islands looking flawless, a new study finds.

The diatoms were launched by the Taupo super-eruption on New Zealand's North Island 25,000 years ago. More than 600 million cubic meters (20 billion cubic feet) of diatoms from a lake flew into ...

In the other scenario she tended her invisible aquarium dwellers for about a month, allowing about 15 generations of diatoms to adjust to CO 2 levels as high as 800 parts per million, which Earth ...

SEASIDE, Ore. - Weather conditions have been fueling massive diatom blooms all along Clastop County beaches, according to the Seaside Aquarium. Diatoms are single-celled plants (phytoplankton ...

In Victorian England, a very curious art form flourished: making intricate patterns from the microalgae known as diatoms, single-celled organisms that range from five microns (or .005 millimeters ...

Since seeing his first diatom arrangement—an intricate pattern of algae crafted by German microscopist J.D. Möller—Matthew Killip has been enthralled with the Victorian art form.

Diatoms are microscopic algae that play a crucial role in our everyday lives by producing 25 per cent of global oxygen, ... 8 rare freshwater fishes for home aquariums. Lifestyle.