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A Huge Experiment May Have Just Revealed the Secret to Multicellularity
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 12 months agoExperiment May Reveal Secret to MulticellularitySTEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY - Getty...
Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth
Futurism via Yahoo News· 9 months agoReprint So, uh, our textbooks might be very wrong about the origin of life on Earth. For decades...
Study explains how primordial life survived on 'Snowball Earth'
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLife on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that lasted from 720 million to...
‘Swarm of one’ robot is a single machine made up of independent modules
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThis robot mimics simple life forms. Trevor Smith, CC BY-ND My colleagues and I have built a robot...
'Why Aren't We All Bacteria?' Siddhartha Mukherjee Explores the Power of Cells
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Mike Windle—Getty Images It’s hard to miss what appears to be dry cleaning hanging on the...
How does our body know how to take shape from a single cell? Scientists are closing in on answers.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe coolest, most complicated machine is not an airplane, electric car or robot vacuum cleaner. It’s...
Decades-old question surrounding the start of the tree of life could finally be solved
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA red blood-belly comb jelly floating in a dark sea. A blood-belly comb jelly Lampocteis...
Meiosis vs. Mitosis: Unraveling Cell Division
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMitosis is the division of a single cell into two cells (as shown here), each with its own nucleus and the same number and kind of chromosomes as the...
This yeast loves light
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoGreen rhodopsin proteins inside the blue cell walls help these yeast grow faster when exposed to light. Unlike some pretty metal plants that thrive in...
Scientists baffled by discovery of bacteria that ought to be too big to function
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThin strands of Thiomargarita magnifica bacteria cells next to a U.S. dime. The species was...