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 ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have tested a quantum computing approach to an old ...

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

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 ...

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

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...