In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the ...

Tiny magnetic bacteria that live in tightly bound groups are showing scientists how life might have evolved complex, multicellular forms. These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one ...

This process, known as transgenesis, allows for the transfer of desirable traits from one organism to another, creating novel combinations of genetic characteristics that would not occur naturally ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its ... The findings call into question what defines life and death, and open up a new area of medicine. From our morning news briefing to ...

The stentor’s multicellular-like behavior could be used as a model system to help understand how life evolved from single-cell organisms to complex organisms like humans — made up of trillions of ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.