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

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

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

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

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

A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or ...

Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hanliang “Han” Guo, Ph.D., is the co-author of newly published research that “potentially provides ...

Stentors form temporary colonies in a half-hemisphere shape. The researchers demonstrated how this formation, including the dynamic relocation of individuals, enhances the feeding flow rate for ...