Organisms are products of the environments they live and evolve in. While the physical world is governed by universal laws ...

Viewing honey bee colonies as superorganisms could reshape modern beekeeping, raising important questions about parasite management and practices that interfere with natural colony behavior. Credit: ...

It was Charles Darwin who first guessed at the mysterious creature that gave rise to all life as we know it. "Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth have descended from ...

If you had to guess the most abundant organism on the whole planet, you’d probably think of ants or, maybe, bacteria. But a newly discovered virus might trump them all. Pelagibacter ubique is often ...

A tiny, aquatic, single-celled organism can contract to one quarter of its body length in less than five milliseconds – hundreds of times faster than a human can blink. Researchers have discovered ...

A clone is a genetically identical copy of an organism. There are a number of technologies that have been used for cloning, including those used to clone genes, single cells and whole organisms. Gene ...

A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”. This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for ...

This video captures the fascinating final moments of a single-celled organism, which belongs to the genus Blepharisma. There are approximately 40 species that belong to the Blepharisma genus, and they ...

The sensory proteins that control the motion of bacteria constantly fluctuate. AMOLF researchers, together with international collaborators from ETH Zurich and University of Utah, found out that these ...