If you have diatomaceous earth collecting dust in your garden shed, consider putting it to good use around your home for a ...

It consists of microscopic skeletons of algae, known as diatoms, that have fossilized over millions of years. The diatoms in diatomaceous earth are largely made up of a chemical compound called ...

evolution and biogeography of freshwater diatoms. The research covers both extinct and extant taxa, and utilises both fossil and preserved material as well as living material in the form of cultured ...

A sliver of this dirt can hold thousands of tiny algae fossils, including diatoms and chrysophytes. By studying the remains of these microbes, each of which thrive under different circumstances, Siver ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant within sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more than 7,000 years. The tiny diatom ... rather than fossils or traces ...

All major diatom groups, both fossil and recent, are represented. The comprehensive assortment of fossil specimens, includes one of the best representations of Cretaceous diatoms.

The Diatom Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History houses a research collection of diatoms that is worldwide in scope, with particular strengthes in North America, Asia, and ...

A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank ... the investigated diatom species regained full ...

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 ...