A group led by University of São Paulo (USP) researchers in Brazil has described a new genus of frogs, Dryadobates, also ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. While sequencing DNA from a tiny ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes mistaken for bacteria due to their single-celled nature and lack of a ...

Archaeal characteristics Several features set the Archaea apart, for example, archaea have a single cell membrane containing a peptidoglycan-like wall which is different in bacteria. Furthermore, both ...

Scientists characterize novel enzymes from deep-sea microbes with a key function in the ethane degradation process, revealing surprises in the metabolism of these organisms.

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process ...

Scientists successfully grew Asgard archaea in the lab and took detailed images.

In recent years, Archaea's connection to us has been pretty huge and surprising.