However, under a microscope, their glitters and colors differ depending on how the light strikes them, like a kaleidoscope. Oku became fascinated by the beauty of diatoms when he was a graduate ...

The diatom collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is drawn from a variety of sources. It contains uncleaned and cleaned material, as well as permanent slides and material ...

and the Kwansei-Gakuin University in Japan have now discovered a protein shell that plays a key role in the diatoms' CO 2 fixation. Using cutting-edge imaging technologies such as cryo-electron ...