There are huge gaps in what we know about sperm, from how they navigate to why sperm counts are tumbling. The BBC unravels ...

The Sporting News tracked the results from each round at the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, where Faizan Zaki emerged as the victor after a 2024 runner-up finish.

THE author has been for about ten years a careful observer of the rudiments of behaviour which are exhibited by unicellular and other relatively simple animals, and we have read with interest ...

This paper targets the identification of outlying sensors (that is, outlying reading sensors) and the detection of the reach of events in sensor networks. Typical applications include the detection of ...

Answer:Paramecium — a microscopic organism — is shaped like a slipper, which is why it’s often called the "slipper animalcule." Question 2: Which Indian state is known as the 'Rice Bowl of ...

Its Latin dedication translates: “This work of a dead Dutchman the English editor (as an animalcule to an ELEPHANT) gives, devotes & dedicates to his dearest brother, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson ...

Malaria’s cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito’s sting. But no one knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria ...

IN the preface to this work, Prof. Huxley tells that the object of his book is to serve as a laboratory guide to those who are inclined to study the principles of Biology as a single science, and ...

Perspectives > Of Parasites and Plagues Bear-Eaters Beware: Trichinella Larvae Still Live in Animals We Eat — Shining a light on an ancient, foodborne parasite by Claire Panosian Dunavan, MD ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Amœba—A Long-Lived Animalcule” inSA Supplements Vol. 29 No. 750supp(May 1890), p. 11985doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05171890-11985supp ...