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

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting ...

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

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80 ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

The stentor’s multicellular-like behavior could be used as a model system to help understand how life evolved from single-cell organisms to complex organisms like humans — made up of trillions of ...

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

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.