Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Andrew Alverson is a biologist and expert on diatoms at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. You'll consume ...

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

Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of ...

Diatoms are unicellular algae with tough exteriors made of silica. These diatoms were found in core samples collected on the Oregon coast. Courtesy of David Bruce/Virginia Tech / OPB.

- Diatoms are a unicellular, (pensive music) photosynthetic algae, and they are in all aquatic environments, so freshwater, brackish, and marine. You can find them anywhere where there's water ...

A simple single-celled marine organism, known as a diatom, has an enormous impact on our atmosphere and oceans, and without these chlorophyll- producing organisms classified as phytoplankton, life ...

Diatoms are microalgae found in moist areas and freshwater environments) Today, several new domains have opened for diatomists like deciphering water quality, climate change, targeted drug ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment. They fix up to 20% of the Earth's CO2. A research team at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has ...

Single-celled algae and marine bacteria live in a complex but largely unexplored relationship. Now, a new study shows that the surface of diatoms is a surprisingly diverse habitat for bacteria. A ...

Diatoms need to respond quickly to the fluctuating light environment to maintain their growth. The researchers used methods involving bioinformatics, molecular biology, ...