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

Plastic pollution isn’t just washing up on our shores — it’s choking marine life, infiltrating food chains, and taking ...

Researchers have created a new plant-based material that could become a strong contender for a plastic replacement.

A groundbreaking development in materials science offers a potential solution to the planet’s mounting single-use plastic ...

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

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the ... in function to lysosomes in mammalian cells (Figure 1). A special feature of guard ...

Each one of us starts off as a single cell when an egg ... The big difference is that the stem cells in adult plants can still make every type of plant cell. Each one has the potential to form ...