Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti...

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An enrichment culture from hot spring sediments in China suggests that Ca. M. sphaerolipidus uses a suite of metabolic pathways to convert long-chain fatty acids such as oleic acid to methane, a proce...

Microbial community composition is primarily governed by the renewal of plant litter at the peat surface and utilization of recent bioavailable organic matter in the recovering layer, rather than wate...

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

Elemental sulfur reduction is a key process in anaerobic ecosystems and the global sulfur cycle. Although elemental sulfur serves as a terminal electron acceptor in microbial respiration, the molecula...

PFAS contaminate water, soil and living organisms worldwide. Microbes play a key role in the environmental persistence of these “forever chemicals.” Can they also help clean them up?

Inside cells, DNA is intimately associated with proteins, forming chromatin. The protein constituents of chromatin vary across the tree of life: histones are the principal building blocks of chromatin...

Corals harbor intracellular algal symbionts in specialized organelles that enable them to build diverse reef ecosystems. Corals and other cnidarians have repeatedly evolved this symbiosis through the ...

The ability to manipulate and control microbial presence in built environments is imperative to research and medicine. The lack of documented evidence relating Bunsen burner use and airborne contamina...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

Baertschi et al. demonstrate that microbiota transplantation functions as a selective ecological filter. Although donor species frequently appear, only specific lineages achieve stable strain integrat...

Microorganisms have long driven Earth’s oxidative sulfuric cycle using complex sulfur-oxidizing systems. This study shows that this molecular machinery first originated in the anoxic Archean eon and g...

Microorganisms drive the global sulfur cycle, but the complexity of sulfur redox transformations complicates understanding of their evolution, metabolism, and ecology. We developed DiSuCy, a manually ...

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its C...

The Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database compiles prokaryotic, viral and eukaryotic genomes from seawater collected from the Great Barrier Reef, providing a rich resource for the study of mar...

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Phages often degrade the genome of their bacterial host to individual nucleotides. Here we describe Metis, a bacterial defense system that directly senses phage-mediated host genome degradation. Metis...

The structure of the Hdr–Vhu–Fwd super-assembly reveals a lineage-specific and modular 8 MDa complex with the ability to adapt to diverse anaerobic niches.

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

All kingdoms of life have developed strategies to limit viral infection. In humans, interferons induce a suite of antiviral factors that collectively provide immunity. Some human immune genes are homo...

Most bacterial phyla have few or no representatives in pure culture. Here, Hedlund et al. isolate two new species within the phylum Atribacterota with unique cell biological features. In addition, the...

Acetate is a central intermediate in the anaerobic breakdown of organic matter. In Baltic Sea sediments at and below the sulfate–methane transition zone, we observed acetate oxidation to carbon dioxid...