Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system—even between ...

Footage from the Tiangong space station shows Shenzhou 18 crew members — commander Ye Guangfu and cremates Li Cong and Li Guangsu — engaged in research on the adaptability of anaerobic archaea. The ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the ...

The world is full of microorganisms, many of which are still a complete mystery to us. Scientists have been working to learn ...

Here, the team has shown that they are present in archaea for the first time and that they are remarkably diverse in their form and function. Not only do archaea have the smallest hydrogen-using ...

Critics cast doubt on gas industry's claim that producing gas from manure and decomposing trash is a climate benefit.

According to an article published in the journal PNAS, different lineages of amoebae and ancestors of plants, algae and ...

RIKEN scientists looking for clues to the origins of life on Earth have discovered a new microbe that may shed light on how ...

The first reaction in the 3-hydroxypropionate carbon ... All of these autotrophic archaea are microaerophiles or anaerobes. Importantly, 189 partial or complete 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase ...