DLR's MAPHEUS 9 sounding rocket carried four experiments into microgravity for approximately six minutes on 29 January 2022. The 1.7-tonne rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center in northern ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new insights into a fundamental cellular feature and the origins of tissue ...

New and comprehensive molecular research confirms a deep evolutionary division among animals. This new tree of life divides all so-called "lower" metazoans (Placozoa, corals, sponges, and jellyfish) ...

Eitel, Michael, Osigus, Hans-Jurgen, DeSalle, Rob, and Schierwater, Bernd. 2013. "Global Diversity of the Placozoa." PLoS ONE, 8, (4) 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1371 ...