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

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

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

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.

Researchers have found that some cells form new multicellular structures with functions that defy their original biological roles even long after the organism they once belonged to has died.

Credit: Shutterstock Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular organisms. When Earth entered a deep freeze, where did life ...

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.