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 ...

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

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

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

It represents a fundamental question not only in the study of bacterial behavior but also in classical fluid dynamics, where understanding the ... The experiments revealed that vortex reversal is the ...

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 ...

It represents a fundamental question not only in the study of bacterial behavior but also in classical fluid dynamics ... The experiments revealed that vortex reversal is the first sign of ...

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 ...