Researchers have caught up with one of the fastest movements in nature. Able to contract faster than a racing car, Spirostomum's abilities could one day be copied to develop faster machines. The ...

Think about fast animals and there are several that come to mind including the Cheetah. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology think they might have found the world's fastest animal and ...

While using his homemade field microscope, the Foldscope, in Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve, Stanford researcher Manu Prakash was fascinated by the actions of a single-celled organism called ...

Ask most people to identify the fastest animal on Earth and they'll suggest a cheetah, falcon or even a sailfish. To that list of speedy animals, Georgia Institute of Technology assistant professor ...

In his famous letter to the Royal Society dated Oct. 9, 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled eukaryote (Vorticella) and its fascinating ultrafast cell contraction as the first set ...

When it comes to naming the world’s fastest creature, it’s tempting to think of peregrine falcons, cheetahs, or marlins, but as researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology are apt to point out, ...

THE purpose of this communication is to describe an interesting property of the macronucleus of a species of Spirostomum, a large freshwater ciliate. The nuclear apparatus of this animal consists of a ...

Observations of cellular life in a local marsh lead researchers to the discovery of a new type of intercellular communication. Crouching in the boot-sucking mud of the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo ...

In his famous letter to the Royal Society dated Oct. 9, 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled eukaryote (Vorticella) and its fascinating ultrafast cell contraction as the first set ...