Beautiful Photos of Artfully Arranged Microscopic Diatoms

These beautiful geometric arrangements are actually microscopic diatoms—a common form of phytoplankton—that have been artfully arranged on microscope slides. The arrangements were created in San Francisco at the California Academy of Sciences, which houses a collection of 50,000 diatom specimens.

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E.D.W. Lynch
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