Imagine if your neck was so extendible that your head could reach your local shop while you sat on the sofa. That would be the human equivalent of what one single-celled predator can do – and now the ...

Oddly, origami could be useful for snagging prey. The finding could help inspire new robotics, such as tools for microsurgery that can extend and contract inside small body cavities. Seeing L. olor’s ...

Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport discovered the organism at Lassen Volcanic National Park in ...

Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms enjoy sunlight -- in fact, many need it to stay alive -- but they tend to avoid light that is too bright. Animals go to their shelter, ...

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created a mouse with substituted genes from a single-celled organism known as a choanoflagellate. Scientists replaced ...

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years. It was discovered hiding in a lab sample of marine ciliates ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...

A globally distributed single-celled organism that occurs in harmful algal blooms has been found to exhibit an unusual organisation of photosynthesis. Researchers have taken a closer look at the ...

A leading Democrat likened Donald Trump to a "single-cell organism" in terms of his approach to Ukraine aid. Speaking on the One Decision Podcast, Connecticut Representative Jim Himes, the ranking ...

Mono Lake, nestled in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada, is a haven for unique life forms. Its iconic tufa formations and thriving populations of brine shrimp and alkali flies showcase an ecosystem ...

Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms enjoy sunlight – in fact, they need it to stay alive – but they tend to avoid light that is too bright. Animals go to their shelter, humans ...