How do microorganisms orient themselves to find the optimal habitat? Scientists have thoroughly investigated so-called ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...

I know human eggs are, but what about chicken eggs, or even ostrich eggs? The seem to have the same makeup, so are we all eating scambled cytoplasn and nucleus? I wish I had my Bio I notebook here at ...

Pando, a Utah aspen grove, is the world's largest living organism by weight. This clonal colony consists of genetically ...

How do simple creatures manage to move to a specific place? Artificial intelligence and a physical model from TU Wien can now explain this. How is it possible to move in the desired direction without ...

Meet Euplotes gigatrox, a single-celled organism discovered on a Caribbean island that temporarily transforms into a predator, hunting and consuming its own relatives. Single-celled organisms aren't ...

A single-celled organism that walks using 14 “legs” seems to control these legs with a mechanical computer made of fibres called microtubules. The finding might help explain how many other ...

Large swaths of single-celled eukaryotes, non-bacterial single-cell organisms like microalgae, fungi or mold, can control microbiomes (a collection of tiny microbes, mostly bacteria) by secreting ...

Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...

Physarum polycephalum is an unusual single-celled organism that can grow to be several square feet in size. These massive cells can live in cool, damp areas in temperate forests, and are able to ...

Large swaths of single-celled eukaryotes, non-bacterial single-cell organisms like microalgae, fungi or mold, can control microbiomes (a collection of tiny microbes, mostly bacteria) by secreting ...

How is it possible to move in the desired direction without a brain or nervous system? Single-celled organisms apparently manage this feat without any problems: for example, they can swim towards food ...