Microscopic algae, such as diatoms, can be picked up from virtually anywhere there is water – including seas, soils and even moist surfaces such as exposed rocks. While diatoms traditionally have been ...

He could see diatoms across the field of view as he peered into a microscope to see plankton from Tokyo Bay as part of his research on maritime environment. "I saw so many shells that appeared ...

The film explores the microscopic world found in a drop of pond water, revealing a diverse ecosystem of tiny plants and animals. It illustrates how these microorganisms, such as amoebas, green algae, ...

This may look like Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, but it is a colourised scanning electron microscope image of a diatom - a tiny single-celled marine creature invisible to the naked eye.

After a while, I decided to look at these samples in the microscope, and then I saw the many different diatom cells. So now we know that very high numbers of nitrate-storing diatoms also live on ...

Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that ... as well as the microscopic oceanic plants that produce half the oxygen on our planet.

Figure 1: Lake Baikal palaeoclimate proxy records of the Brunhes chron. If none of the above implications were to be confirmed by future studies, the Lake Baikal record still demonstrates a ...

Several different phytoplankton species, including diatoms and dinoflagellates, seen through a microscope. These species use the VHA-enhancing mechanism of photosynthesis discovered in a new study.