All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A single celled organism eating its prey, an inside view of a termite's gut, and a parasite going 'Alien' on its host took top honors in Nikon's Small World in ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Bacteria are everywhere. Trillions of these microscopic, single-celled organisms make their home on your body and inside it. Should you be alarmed? Hardly, here's the truth about bacteria.

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that ...

The radiating, kaleidoscopic pattern you see here was once the living glass skeleton – the cell wall – of a single-celled organism called a diatom. These organisms absorb silicon from their ...

Hydrogen constitutes three-quarters of all matter in the universe and was abundant on early Earth due to intense geological and volcanic activity. Similar to stars using hydrogen for nuclear ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

Glycolysis is an ancient metabolic activity. It consists of a set of reactions that convert glucose into energy. This central ...