In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

“Today, we can for all practical purposes read, write, and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it. Maybe we can cut and paste pieces from nature’s compositions, but we don’t know how to ...

Earth’s immense web of life fill three broad domains—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Scientists from Monash University recently discovered hydrogen-producing enzymes in archaea, which were thought to ...