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

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have uncovered an intricate light manipulation mechanism likely used by microscopic ...

The study was published in Scientific Reports. Diatoms are a large group of unicellular algae with characteristic hard, lightweight, porous shells made of silicon dioxide, called frustules.

Diatoms are single-celled algae organisms, around 30 to 100 millionths of a meter in diameter, that are ubiquitous throughout the oceans. These creatures are encased within a hard shell shaped ...

In nature, however, the salinity varies widely among different species of diatoms—from 0 (diatoms can exist for some time even in distilled water) to more than 150‰, when salt deposition begins.

These tiny, single-celled marine life forms have existed for at least 100 million years and are the basis for much of the life in the oceans, but they also have rigid shells that can be used to ...

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(Nanowerk News) A glow coming from the glassy shell of microscopic marine algae called diatoms could someday help us detect chemicals and other substances in water samples. And the fact that this ...

Scientists since the late 1990s have found only a handful of genes that influence diatom shell formation. The work with Thalassiosira pseudonana identified large, previously unknown subsets.

A silicon dioxide-based shell of an Aulacoseira diatom The microscopic glass skeletons of algae could be transformed into silicon for novel electronic applications, a new study suggests. The ...

About 20 per cent of the oxygen we need is generated by a group of plant-like organisms called diatoms, living in the world’s oceans. That’s more than all the world’s rainforests put together.