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

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

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

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

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

The origin of solar cells has had an impact on the price of US solar modules in the past three months, according to a report ...