microbes

Many More Viruses Revealed Below the Seafloor

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…

The crust beneath the seafloor is a vast but remote habitat, peppered with poorly studied microbes…

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…

A new open-access special issue on Deep Matter and Energy contains sixteen papers that span all…

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…