Photosynthesis, the natural process of converting sunlight energy into chemical energy and generating molecular oxygen, is a remarkable natural phenomenon that not only forms the basis for sustaining ...

It’s not often a board game is novel, beautiful, and educational! Diatoms hits on all points. It’s a tile-placement and pattern-making game where players make mosaics out of small tiles of different ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.

Aim This study focused on the spatiotemporal variation of the benthic diatom community structure in salt marshes from the Patos Lagoon estuary and their relationship with environmental variables.

In this study, the PSII-FCPII-Lhcx6_1 supercomplex was extracted and purified from the thylakoid membranes of the diatom chloroplast. Its structure was then solved by single particle cryo-electron ...

"The evolutionary success and importance of diatoms to the Earth habitat means that their structure is optimal simultaneously in many respects—photonically, mechanically, biochemically—while ...

The small size of viruses typically requires Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to reveal their structure. However, this methods offers too little throuput to examine population dynamics.

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 ...

But as soon as Potapova slips one under a microscope lens, the slide’s contents dazzle. Dozens of diatoms—microscopic, single-celled algae encased in sturdy silica walls and found wherever there is ...