Many years ago as a young biochemistry major at the University of Bath in the UK, I undertook a senior research project with one of the research professors. I remember the project well because of its ...

High in the mountains of Antarctica, Ohio State University geologists unearthed the fossil remains of a 180-million-year-old clam-like creature that was preserved in a very unusual way: by the ancient ...

The extent to which cattle, rice fields and thawing permafrost soil are intensifying climate change is still undetermined. It is known, however, that archaebacteria in the intestines of cows and in ...

Just call them archaea (ar-kee-uh) - archaebacteria are no more. Archaea were once considered to be quite similar to bacteria, but these prokaryotes are just weird enough to be classified in their own ...