Diatoms turns a weird Victorian art craze into a solid competitive board game that also has a solo campaign. Read Keith Law's ...

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

"At some point it might not be beneficial anymore to stick around with your buddies. But if you don't, you die." ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

The truth is clear: Animal models aren’t just helpful; they’re irreplaceable. They remain central to understanding the ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

A team was able to show that swimming movements are possible even without a central control unit. This not only explains the behavior of microorganisms, it could also enable nanobots to move in a ...

In Shaw, Miss., officials have failed to prevent the sewer system from backing up after heavy rains, causing water ...

No one rule captures the full sweep of life’s ingenuity, yet SAI offers a fresh lens, suggesting that aging and fragility are ...