Diatoms turns a weird Victorian art craze into a solid competitive board game that also has a solo campaign. Read Keith Law's review.

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the foundation of aquatic food webs. The prevalence and diversity of diatoms ...

There may be 200,000 varieties of beautiful diatoms, single-celled microorganisms that provide as much as 20 percent of the oxygen that we breathe.

Colourised scanning electron microscope images of diatoms by Dr Paul Hargreaves and Faye Darling.

This is a diatom – but the biohazard homage is pretty appropriate given the topic of this post (CC image via Flickr – Wellcome Images) The collection of diatoms in a victim’s bone marrow represents a ...

Diatoms have been discovered to be much tougher than what we initially thought. In fact, they may be the next graphene-like super material.

Diatoms – unicellular organisms – have long been known to science, but their overwhelming appetite for nitrate is a new discovery made in a global survey. Nitrate is a nutrient, widely used as ...

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 ...