All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting ...

But scientists have found that a more complex organism — a single-celled alga with a nucleus — can do it, too, thanks to a newly identified piece of cellular architecture. They're calling it ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened ...

This food scene on Florida’s northwestern coast embraces sustainability as a necessity after hurricane devastation. Meet the fishing community serving fresh local seafood and farmers supplying ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

Many mouths are better than one Stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism that can grow up to 2 mm long. In its native habitat of ponds or lakes, Stentor attaches its slender end (called ...

and ultimately arrange themselves into a fully formed organism. Now MIT scientists have used light to control how a single cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development.

a simple single-celled organism called Mycoplasma mycoides, in 2010. But Yeast 2.0 will be a synthetic eukaryote; the first lab-made organism in the vast domain of multicellular life that includes ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.