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

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 ...

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 sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

Based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding by Stentor ... to leaves or twigs while the trumpet end sways freely, creating a vortex of water to suck in food, such as bacteria, with its ...

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

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 ...