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 ...

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 ...

A new species of archaebacteria thriving within a temperature range of 80 to 105°C and able to divide itself up to a hydrostatic pressure of 120 Mpa (1000 times higher than the atmospheric pression), ...

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 ...