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

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

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 ...

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

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

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

find rapid chromosome evolution, sex chromosome turnover and ... though it remains unclear how cells communicate in these organisms. Here they use the placozoa Trichoplax to screen for active ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

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