While humans often struggle to find a partner who is both physically attractive and a reliable co-parent, yeast may already have cracked the formula for the perfect match. When choosing mates, these ...

Occurred on January 31, 2025 / Hong Kong, China Info from Licensor: "Video of an amoeba surrounding and eating a ciliate." ...

Tan Siyou wasn’t sure her deeply personal film – rooted in Mandarin, English and Singlish, and with references like O-Levels ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with The Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, ...

Here we reassess available evidence for the long-held misconception of amoebae possessing exceptionally large genomes. Traditionally, estimates relied on inaccurate methods like DNA weight ...

A video capturing the movement of Arcella as it travels across a glass surface. The scale bar represents 50 μm, and the playback speed is 10×. An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido University has characterized the unique mechanics that enable Arcella, a shelled, single-celled amoeba, to move skillfully across different ...

While on a sampling trip in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, researchers stopped to sample a rather boring stream on their hike to Boiling Springs Lake. But when they incubated that water ...