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A Huge Experiment May Have Just Revealed the Secret to Multicellularity
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 12 months agoExperiment May Reveal Secret to MulticellularitySTEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY - Getty...
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...
‘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...
This yeast loves light
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 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...
'Why Aren't We All Bacteria?' Siddhartha Mukherjee Explores the Power of Cells
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCredit - Mike Windle—Getty Images It’s hard to miss what appears to be dry cleaning hanging on the...
Animal Classification: A Taxonomy for All Living Things
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEverything in this photo, from the wolf to the fallen tree it's jumping over, can be classified...
What is the smallest animal on Earth?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe smallest known vertebrate, Brachycephalus pulex, on a coin. Tiny animals are, by their very nature, often overlooked. Most animal enthusiasts know...
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...
Synthetic human embryos let researchers study early development while sidestepping ethical and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoEarly human development is a complex, multistep process that’s even more complicated to study in the...
Could ORNL's supercomputer track how disease-causing proteins act?
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA Nobel laureate came to town recently to deliver a lecture and determine whether the world’s...
