The forms of protists are as varied as they are ethereal, and all are invisible to the naked eye. For the past seven years, Kevin J. Carpenter has been researching and photographing some of these ...

Researchers studied in detail the strange protist Meteora sporadica, which swings its two lateral arms back and forth. The results of the study indicated that M. sporadica has a complex cytoskeleton ...

From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a unicellular protist is hinting at answers about the evolution of multicellularity while raising a whole new set of questions. From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a ...

Warming ocean waters due to human-caused climate change are spurring more hurricanes to rapidly intensify, Carolyn Gramling reported in “Why hurricanes intensify so swiftly” (SN: 10/7/23 & 10/21/23, p ...

Some very simple organisms are capable of very complex behavior, like fungi that exhibit signs of memory or bacterial cells that can orchestrate their activity and work as a larger organism.

Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least among people over 30. But the first study ...

Talk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding eukaryotic evolution.

Oceans were warmer last month than any other May on record - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP POOL Oceans were warmer last month than any other May on record ...

Environmental science has clearly entered the ‘era of the microbe’ during the past decade. At no other time in our history have we so completely grasped the immensity of microbial diversity or its ...