Yeast’s emergence as a model organism reshaped scientific discovery in cell biology, genetics, and more.

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If you guessed a redwood tree or a blue whale, you would be wrong. The largest organism is a fungus. And under climate change, it's likely to have an advantage compared to its host species. Scientists ...

The pond at Oxford University Parks is not much to look at. It is a small, artificial freshwater basin on the edge of campus, the kind of place students walk past on the way to lectures. But in April ...

In Oregon’s Blue Mountains, patches of dying trees once looked like separate outbreaks, scattered across ridges and drainages as if disease had struck at random. Instead, scientists found something ...

Has a complex organism, like a dog, ever evolved into a single-celled organism? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that an organism devoid of a nervous system is capable of learning. Biologists have succeeded in showing that a single-celled organism, the protist, is ...

The key question in the debate over stem cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos is: When does the life of a human being begin? To answer this question is to decide whether human ...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under the Blue Mountains of Oregon lurks something massive and prehistoric. Yet the largest recorded ...