On the slope of a Utah mountain, a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees is under threat from wildlife and climate change.

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s ...

Researchers Tease This Single-Celled Organism With No Brain and Witness a Complex Reaction That Stuns Them Around five years ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

Earth's largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlake National Forest in Utah, is being eaten alive by ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...

An organism suitable for studying a specific trait, disease, or phenomenon, due to its short generation time, characterized genome, or similarity to humans; examples are a fly, fish, rodent or pig ...

The organism senses this environmental state and records a memory of the past states. But older memories decay in importance over time, at a rate that defines the organism's learning timescale ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

The roundworm C. elegans is a simple animal whose nervous system has exactly 302 neurons. Each of the connections between ...