Nerds have a particular fascination for the Cthulhu mythos of horror novelist and all-around-weird-guy H. P. Lovecraft. In Lovecraft’s stories, Cthulhu was a tentacle-faced titanic god-monster who ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Endomyxa comprises a diverse range of protists, including intracellular parasites that infect animals and plants, as well as free-living amoebae that do not rely on a host. Until now, ...

A study visualizing the fluid flow around 15 species of unicellular flagellated protists, which use their flagella to generate currents that enable feeding while avoiding detection by flow-sensing ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Researchers studied in detail the strange protist Meteora sporadica, which swings its two lateral arms back and forth. The results of the study indicated that M. sporadica has a complex cytoskeleton ...

Protists are a diverse, polyphyletic assemblage of predominantly unicellular eukaryotic organisms that do not fit within the traditional kingdoms of animals, plants, or fungi and are therefore used as ...