Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

B acteria, among the oldest of life forms, have lived in seemingly every possible habitat on the planet, from ocean trenches ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

Imagine a world without sunlight, buried under miles of rock, where temperatures soar and pressures crush. Now, imagine that ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...