A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or lakes, while its trumpet end creates a vortex to draw in food, such as ...

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

In an industry traditionally bound by precedent and caution, the word “fluid” now best describes the rapidly changing legal ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80 percent of life on Earth ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early ...

A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding ...

MIT scientists found that when people veer more than 13 degrees off-course in a crowd, orderly walking breaks down into ...

Researchers at the Urbana-Champaign have unlocked new insights into the turbulent behavior of hypersonic flows by using ...

"Having made a crucial contribution to the development of mathematical models that enable real-time, highly accurate simulations of complex systems—reduced-order models—for applications in ...