Long before the appearance of plants or animals, primitive multicellular organisms had developed an effective strategy to ...

But complex multicellular organisms have arisen just six times on the tree of life: plants, animals, two groups of fungi, and two groups of algae.

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...

Some unicellular organisms can make fluids flow using specialised hair- or whip-like structures called cilia or flagella. Snowflake yeast have neither. This is where physics becomes important.

After clinical death, some of your cells refuse to quit, or even attempt to reconfigure into strange, emergent forms.

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial ...

It emphasized the concept of the unity of life and brought about the concept of organisms as "republics of living elementary units" 7.