biosphere
Deep Life Not Limited to Microbes: Earthquakes Move Surface Animals to the Deep
Decades of drilling into Earth’s crust has revealed a vast and poorly explored habitat for microbes…
Microbes in the deep biosphere exist at pressures that would crush most surface organisms. At one…
About 65 million years ago, massive volcanic eruptions spread lava over an estimated 1.5 million…
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…