A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

The single-celled Stentor coeruleus learns through CaMKII-driven protein modification, mirroring mechanisms found in the human brain.

Much more difficult is learning to connect different types of stimuli or events, and predicting that one is linked to another. Such associative learning was most famously demonstrated when Ivan Pavlov ...

The metaphor of Euglena’s tail therefore does two things. First, it expresses the idea that quantum formalism is a manual – a ...

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...