One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started.Author Quoc Phuong Tran PhD Candidate in Prebiotic Chemistry, UNSW ...

The experiment involved custom-building a small chamber that simulated hot spring environments on early Earth.

Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn. One ...

“Past studies on rock weathering have measured how the weathering process affects carbon capture, but they’ve overlooked the ...

A child’s introduction to the classification of plants and animals—alongside fungi, protists, bacteria and other living ...

I studied bacteria and another type of microbe called archaea from hot environments for many years to learn how they might have evolved on early Earth, but I still have so many unanswered questions.

To reconstruct Luca's genome, we needed a sample of genomes (all the genetic information in an organism) from across different groups of bacteria and archaea (single cell organisms distinct from ...

Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

In a paper published in Science Advances, the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB) together with the Albers Lab from the University of ...

Evo is a large language model that is not trained on words but on the genomes of millions of microbes. It can accurately ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea can become multicellular when compressed, highlighting the role of physical forces in ...