Different cell types have varying survival times. For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after ...

A type of zooplankton, Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits ...

Scientists have established the existence of a “third state” which lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life forms from the cells of a ...

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Comprehensively sampling the biota of individual trees offers an alternative to assessing the biodiversity of fewer groups of organisms at the forest scale. Large old tropical trees provide a wealth ...

An individual development account (IDA) is a type of savings account designed to help low-income individuals build assets and achieve financial stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

The team deployed a state-of-the-art holographic camera to examine the many microscopic organisms that inhabit the body of water. Dubbed the weeHoloCam, the technology can produce several thousand ...

The technology is capable of producing several thousand digital holographic images of microscopic marine organisms in one dive. A state-of-the-art holographic camera has been used to look at the ...

The organism that actually forms these shells ... The diatoms take in light and produce carbohydrates and oxygen. “So the individual bit of star sand—the individual skeleton—is actually ...

While some metamonads, like Monocercomonoides and Giardia, live inside other organisms as parasites or commensals, a new study embarked on a closer analysis of five recently discovered metamonads ...