biosphere
Deep Life Not Limited to Microbes: Earthquakes Move Surface Animals to the Deep
From their humble location deep in the muck at the bottom of the ocean, subseafloor microbes…
The Kidd Creek Mine, located in Ontario in Canada, is a copper, silver, and zinc mine reaching…
Earth’s ocean floor covers about 71 percent of the planet, making it a giant yet poorly explored…
Deep, dark ocean waters represent the largest marine environment on Earth. Studying how microbes…
Archaea and bacteria may look very similar under the microscope, but organisms from these two…
Microbiologist Karen Lloyd (DCO Executive Committee, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA…
Proteins are finely tuned, specialized “nanomachines” that catalyze necessary chemical reactions in…
Despite their bad reputation for being agents of disease, viruses play an important ecological role…
Based on what we know of early Earth and the origin of life, scientists think that the first cells…
In the oxygen-free parts of lakes, hot springs, and marine environments worldwide, some microbes…