On Tuesday, Minister of Ports and Mining Nitesh Rane inspected the AQUA STENTOR E-Tug during its demonstration at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Uran. Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has ...

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Stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism that can grow up to 2 mm long. In its native habitat of ponds or lakes, Stento r attaches its slender end (called the holdfast) to leaves or twigs ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80 percent of life on Earth consists of single-celled organisms – some thriving in ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and at Harvard Medical School have used mathematical modeling to show how individual cells appear capable of learning, a behavior once deemed ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a Feature Writer from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade and finds dissecting Marvel trailers for hours standard practice and still finds time to review, ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s hard to think of a more iconic orchestral instrument than ...

What is learning? Do organisms need a brain to learn? The habits of Stentor coeruleus, a single-celled organism that lives in ponds, show that a brain is not required for living things to learn and ...