Fossilized microscopic algae offer insights into historic environmental conditions and provide a clearer picture of how the ...

Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. Diatoms are too small to see with the naked eye, yet they are ...

Artistic impression of the interaction of uranium with the freshwater diatom Achnanthidium saprophilum. Such diatoms can be the entry point for the accumulation of pollutants - for example ...

Didymosphenia geminata or "rock snot" diatoms, eight of which were photographed with interference microscopy and pictured here, can produce slimy nuisance growths in cold, low-nutrient streams. Stay ...