How is it possible to move in the desired direction without a brain or nervous system? Single-celled organisms apparently manage this feat without any problems: for example, they can swim towards food ...

They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do their life’s ...

[Matt] Dig into your local pond, and you just might find one of the strangest, most mysterious organisms on Earth. Even here, smack in the middle of San Francisco, they're everywhere. What's that ...

The tree of life has three branches: archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes include complex organisms, including plants, animals, and fungi. Eukaryotic cells contain many organelles, little ...

Rice University synthetic biologists and bioengineers are preparing to interrogate some single-celled survivalists to find out how they deal with stress. Bacillus subtilis is a common soil bacteria ...

Research explains how a unicellular marine organism generates light as a response to mechanical stimulation, lighting up breaking waves at night. Research explains how a unicellular marine organism ...

Introverts take heart: When cells, like some people, get too squished, they can go into defense mode, even shutting down photosynthesis. In a study published today, a team at CU Boulder took advantage ...

That’s what pops to mind when I look at Sebastian Hess’ photos of a kind of plump, violent, single-celled creature he collected from a pond rich in sphagnum moss in southern Germany. The ...

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, and if you follow any two branches back through time, you'll hit an... Life as we know it descended from a single cell. What ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists of single-celled organisms—some thriving in conditions lethal to any beast ...

The discovery of a billion-year-old fossil in Scotland offers exciting new insight into animal evolution, BC researcher says Loch Torridon in Scotland, where the microfossil was discovered. Photo: ...