Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which developed 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago to propel bacteria.
In labs, bacterial colonies usually grow in streaks in petri dishes, but until now no one has known how the colonies organize themselves in more realistic three-dimensional (3D) environments, such as ...
Similar to the fable of the tortoise and the hare, scientists found that bacteria engineered to individually move faster actually lose the race against slower strains when traveling in densely packed ...
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