A curious student, a coffee break, and a chance encounter with two SCUBA divers... It sounds like the start of a joke, but it's really the story of new research, originating from the MBL, that proposes physical forces encouraged the evolution of multicellular life.
This research had its inception in the 2014 MBL Physiology course and was published in 2025 in Nature Physics. Check out the video to follow the journey of discovery!
Video by Alex Megerle
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