Mousley Bottom, Derbyshire: This area was a literal dump 40 years ago, devoid of life. But time and a dedicated council have worked their magic Stand in this wood by the River Goyt, listening to the ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. August 11, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. Butterflies, beavers, panda bears — open ...

Scientists are using genetic scissors one-third the size of CRISPR Cas9/Cas12a to develop a more resilient rice strain. Sourced from a hardy archaebacteria, the repurposed protein 1 can easily slip ...

Superheroes don’t exist in the real world (or at least that’s what the government keeps telling us) but these microorganisms are pretty close to being actual superheroes. They don’t breathe, they’ve ...

Marshes, wetlands, lakes and rice fields are oxygen-poor environments. Microbes that make methane thrive here. They feed on decaying plants and release methane in the process. It's a great situation ...

Since time immemorial, humanity has pondered the question of how life on Earth first began. Ancient cultures declared the creation of the world and the origin of life to be the work of gods and other ...

If you think carbon dioxide is the most powerful greenhouse gas, think again. When it comes to heating the Earth, methane is 80 times more effective than CO2 and is responsible for 30% of the total ...

Do aliens exist? Almost certainly. The Universe is vast and ancient, and our corner of it is not particularly special. If life emerged here, it probably did elsewhere. Keep in mind this is a super ...

A bacterium first discovered in 2009 grows to over a centimeter long. Its huge size and interior complexity both defy what we once knew about bacteria. There are many known large, single-celled ...

In 1977 Carl Woese identified a “primary kingdom” of life which he termed Archaebacteria (Woese and Fox, 1977), and over the intervening decades, the distinctiveness of these organisms (now known as ...

Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mănoa, Honolulu, HI, United States In 1977, Woese and Fox leveraged molecular phylogenetic analyses ...