Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses ...

In a lab at Queen Mary University of London, a mouse was born whose existence defied conventional biology. It carried within ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or ...