New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.

The latest research into Japan's iron-rich hot springs revealed how early microbes acquired iron and oxygen during a massive ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: the early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience ...

South Wales' abandoned coal mines could hold the key to greener heating across the U.K. Scientists from Aberystwyth University have mapped the microbes that thrive in the mines. These tiny organisms ...

Longer-lasting phones, lighter drones, electric cars that drive farther. These are just some of the possibilities thanks to a ...

Peroxidases are enzymes that break down hydrogen peroxide in organisms. Since their discovery in 1998, the electron source of ...

< Symbolic representation of the reaction catalyzed by the peroxidase of the “Peroxiredoxin 6 type.” Copyright: RPTU, AG Deponte ...