
Engineers Envy Diatoms Glass-Sculpturing Prowess
July 21, 2004
What is it? An ornate crown? A crystal serving dish cover? A work of art? The photo on the cover of the July 17 Science News, labeled “silicon jewels,” is a microphotograph of a diatom, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea and builds itself a glass house too small to see with the […]