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 ...

Microscopic algae, such as diatoms, can be picked up from virtually anywhere there is water – including seas, soils and even moist surfaces such as exposed rocks. While diatoms traditionally have been ...

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 ...

Diatoms are a type of single-celled algae found all over the world. Considered a model organism, they’re a staple in labs studying ocean water quality. Indeed, they’re as ubiquitous in microbiology ...

Banner image: Diatoms, like this one seen under a microscope, can take on a wide range of shapes, from spheres to triangles and even starbursts. (Credit: Patrick Kociolek) When Patrick Kociolek was ...

Slime isn't usually thought of as beautiful. But a closer looks show the sticky substance hides an incredible array of patterns. These show diatoms - the most common form of algae - which vary hugely ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Residents outside of Detroit Lakes are seeing the normally clear water of Long Lake clouded by something that hasn't appeared there for over 30 years. Long Lake has the ...