For several decades, scientists have been seeing weirdly bright areas of the Antarctic oceans on satellite images. The ...

Uranium is found in minerals in the soil, dissolves in mining water and ends up in the fields together with phosphate ...

Scientists explain bright Southern Ocean waters—diatoms and coccolithophores reshape how we see ocean color and carbon flow.

An area of the remote Southern Ocean that's long confused ocean color satellites by reflecting large amounts of ...

Uranium is found in minerals in the soil, dissolves in mining water and ends up in the fields together with phosphate ...

Chemicals released from car tires as they wear down are washing into rivers, estuaries and the sea and they could be ...

Published: May 2008 Diatoms in a future ocean — stirring it up: reply from Falkowski and Oliver Paul G. Falkowski & Matthew J. Oliver Nature Reviews Microbiology 6, 407 (2008) Cite this article ...

Diatoms are the most important producers of plant biomass in the ocean and help to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere into the deep ocean and thus regulate our climate. Because ...

Diatoms – unicellular organisms – have long been known to science, but their overwhelming appetite for nitrate is a new discovery made in a global survey.

Diatoms the board game draws on this now-extinct tradition, where players will collect diatoms in five shapes and five colors and try to create patterns on their personal boards to match the three ...

Diatoms were thought to have grown progressively more abundant from the start of the Cenozoic Era, 66 million years ago, until today, Westacott said. The prevailing view was that the rise of diatoms ...

These silica-based structures that diatoms build, resembling microscopic pillboxes, reflect light in much the same way as coccolithophore shells (it takes far more frustules to produce the same ...