McSweeney says since seaweed is an "underutilized ingredient" in the Western world, there's a bit of an uphill battle to develop the market for it in food products. "We think about consumers, they ...

When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...

Summary of genetic events leading to adaptive radiation of diatoms in the N. sing1 lineage.

This isn't so much of a problem for Klaus though, as diatoms hang around for a long while. "Being made up of Silica it means they do not rot away over long periods of dying and settling as a ...

Diatoms are microscopic golden-brown algae abundant in freshwater and marine habitats. Although only about 70,000 species are known today, scientists estimate there might be around two million ...

Unlike most diatoms, which perform photosynthesis to generate carbon compounds, some members of the genus Nitzschia have no chlorophyll and instead consume carbohydrates from seaweed and decaying ...