How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun first met in the lab of Robert Horvitz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, none ...

Imagine gliding across a midnight bay, your paddle slicing through inky black water, only to see shimmering blue light ...

While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...

To reduce the cost of feeding astronauts in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) just launched a lab into space in a significant first step in manufacturing food in space, a new frontier.

Amalgamations of single cells, biofilms grow and develop into unified ... With enough information, Guo said that he might one day be able to predict an organism’s final form based on these ...

It has accompanied life since its origin, from single cells to complex organisms like mammals. Scientists have extensively studied the role of metabolism in individual cells to understand how it ...

It has accompanied life since its origin, from single cells to complex organisms like mammals. Scientists have extensively studied the role of metabolism in individual cells to understand how it ...