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 ...

When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell. But there have been whole ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

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.

These single-celled organisms have no neurons ... The slime mold doesn’t simply charge toward the largest food source. It explores broadly, strengthens promising paths, and, crucially, maintains ...

Bacteria and archaea contain only single-celled organisms. Previous chemical analysis of ... "We report that Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rhynie ecosystem and its anatomy was ...

Among the many things we could do to reduce strain on the environment is find greener ways of constructing buildings. You see ...

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

Light pollution, which illuminates the night sky, promotes the growth of cyanobacteria and stimulates metabolic processes in ...