High in the mountains of Antarctica, Ohio State University geologists unearthed the fossil remains of a 180-million-year-old clam-like creature that was preserved in a very unusual way: by the ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are using genetic scissors one-third the size of CRISPR Cas9/Cas12a to develop a more resilient rice strain. Sourced from a hardy archaebacteria, the repurposed protein 1 can easily slip ...