There's more than meets the eye in the creations of artist Osamu Oku. His breathtaking arrangements of iridescent patterns glimmering on a black background are sheer beauty that can only be glimpsed ...

This may look like Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, but it is a colourised scanning electron microscope image of a diatom - a tiny single-celled marine creature invisible to the naked eye. Diatoms ...

Few did obsessive nature handicrafts like the Victorians, whether it was seaweed scrapbooking or shell arranging, something of the salon repression boiling over into insanely labored DIY arts. One of ...

This may look like nothing more than tiny specks of dusty material, but it's life. These are diatoms, single-celled organisms that are really rather remarkable.

Tiny creatures at the bottom of the food chain called diatoms suck up nearly a quarter of the atmosphere's carbon dioxide, yet research suggests they could become less able to "sequester" that ...

AT various times there has been discussion as to the actual nature of the markings on the valves of diatoms—whether pits, projections, or perforations.

A miniature photograph of the moon, beard hairs whose owner has been dead for centuries, a shaving of Egyptian mummy bone, flowerlike patterns constructed from butterfly scales and algae called ...

Assorted diatoms as seen through a microscope. Diatoms are also the most important producers of plant biomass in the ocean and help to transport carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into the deep ocean ...