“You could see the front of the bloom right along the coast”—a reddish cloud of millions of microscopic organisms called dinoflagellates floating in the water. “The striking part was all the little ...

And as she's discovered, there's a lot of it. This is water from a garden pond in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It contains single-celled organisms called coleps which are caught up in a dance. It almost ...

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...