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

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

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

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

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

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

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

Single-cell gene sequencing has changed the way scientists understand life at the smallest level. It lets researchers study ...

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

The movie follows a team of astronauts on the International Space Station who discover a soil sample from Mars containing a single-celled life form. At first, they’re fascinated, watching it ...