Fluids play a crucial role in industrial processes like cooling, heating, and mixing. Traditionally, most industries would ...

AI has created a sea change in society; now, it is setting its sights on the sea itself. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...