Berkeley Lab
Diatoms do so much for us already - they're the base of the oceans' food chains and take up 20% of the planet's carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. But biologist Setsuko Wakao thinks they'd be great at another job too: acting as tiny sponges to store toxic or useful metals using the molecule structure of their gorgeous shells.
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