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 ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

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 articles from across Nature Portfolio Archaea are organisms consisting of a single cell without a nucleus and with distinct structural, physiological and evolutionary characteristics.

They eventually determined that the organism belonged to the domain Archaea—a group associated with prokaryotic cells, but from which eukaryotic cells (i.e. you and me) ultimately descended a ...