Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Cooperation is often seen as a strength in nature, but new research suggests it can also carry hidden costs, at least in the ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

Researchers have captured the first clear view of the hidden architecture that helps shape a simple multicellular organism, showing how cells work together to build complex life forms. Volvox. The ...

As humans, we typically look at life and death as two sides of the same coin. However, some researchers believe there could be a "third state" between the two. One piece of evidence for this ...

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The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who've spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in unison and triggered the ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch. Reading time 2 minutes Hundreds of ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue to function even after the organism they originated from is deceased, often ...

Funding: W.C.R. acknowledges support from the NIH (grant no. 5R35GM138030) and NSF (CAREER Grant no. 1845363), A.J.B. acknowledges support from the Human Frontiers Science Program grant (RGY0080/2020) ...