Multiple sirens have been heard in and around Kansas City Tuesday warning of tornadoes, with one already confirmed on the edge of the city. CBS News correspondent Ian Lee reports.

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Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have ... travels among these networked cells. The images from Muñoz-Marín’s lab marked the first time these structures have been seen in ...

To understand bacterial cell division, let us use the children’s game LEGO as a simplified analogy. Picture a square cell that is six inches on each side, with walls made of LEGO tiles.

travels among these networked cells. The images from Muñoz-Marín’s lab marked the first time these structures have been seen in the cyanobacteria responsible for so much of the Earth’s photosynthesis.

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS / Bill Tompkins/Getty Images ... provides us with energy—may have originated from ancient bacteria cells that entered another ancient prokaryote.

Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's "envelope" or enclosure is key ... Goley cautioned that "it will take some time to develop a complete picture about how they function across gram ...