Not all fidget toys are for consistent fidgeting — at least, not for me. Sometimes I just feel a quick burst of physical ...

While mushrooms have a wide array of culinary, medical, and, erm, recreational uses, there are some you should never, ever ...

New work unravels a longstanding mystery about the relationship between form and function in the genetic material of a diverse group of algae called dinoflagellates. Palo Alto, CA—New work from a ...

It is named after its distinguishing feature—the “ancoracyst,” a gun-like organelle that it uses to “shoot” at and immobilize its prey, usually other flagellate species. Janouškovec, a molecular ...

Collodictyon is not a virus, but it has gone viral. This obscure unicellular species, isolated from a lake in Norway, is fast becoming this year’s most talked about microbe. A cursory Google search of ...