Diatoms

By Bora Zivkovic | October 31, 2012 |

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Image of the Week #66, October 31th, 2012:

From: Some sights about the microbial world by Psi Wavefunction at The Ocelloid.

Source: Psi Wavefunction

Sometimes in the quest for study and data, beauty appears. Or, as Psi Wavefunction of The Ocelloid put it; “just glimpses of the microbial world, which was a fancy way of saying ‘they looked kinda pretty on my screen’”.

Here is a pair of diatoms, microscopic phytoplankton with a beautiful structure made of silica, found in an alpine pond north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada nestle together, expertly captured in a tiny moment by Psi. View her post for what are normally invisible moments of beauty that happen all around us.

About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.

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