Researchers analyze the acoustics and physics behind the sloshing and popping sounds that occur when opening a swing-top beer bottle. In a fun experiment, Max Koch, a researcher at the University of ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

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 sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

Xun Jia, Rajat Mittal, Mihaela Pertea, and Sri Sarma honored for outstanding contributions to engineering and medicine ...

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 ...

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

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who’ve spent years trying to understand how ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have revealed how tiny swimming cells—such as sperm and bacteria—are able to move faster when traveling as a group ...

"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 ...