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

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

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

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Large soda lakes may have provided the high phosphorus levels needed for life to begin on Earth, offering a new explanation ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

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This valuable study uses a massive and long-term experimental data set to provide solid evidence on how tree diversity affects host-parasitoid communities of insects in forests. The work will be of ...

receives the Göran Gustafsson Prize in molecular biology. The goal of her research is to find a new strategy for gentler cancer treatments. The idea is to improve both survival and quality of life for ...