Four autotrophic carbon-fixation pathways were already known and Berg et al. now report a fifth pathway that is used by archaea from diverse habitats. The best-known autotrophic pathway is the ...

The sandworms of Arrakis provide the oxygen that sustains human life. Sandworms eat sand for sustenance, making them a rare ...

Mechanistic modeling of oxygen transfer in hollow-fiber membrane-aerated biofilm reactors (HFMBRs) Coupling of aerobic and anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in mixed community biofilms ...

The space agency has out-of-this-world aims to grow ‘hotels’ and other structures using mushrooms and lunar dust.

However, the cave system appears to lack the symbioses between chemo-autotrophic microbes and animals so characteristic of deep sea vent communities.” Biologists continue to study the cave ...

Clear-water lakes were dominated by autotrophic energy mobilization in the benthic habitat, whereas humic lakes were dominated by heterotrophic energy mobilization in the pelagic habitat. Whole-lake ...

In the last decades we entered in an era where, in various fields, a huge amount of data is becoming available; ecology and forest sciences are not the exception. Field measurements, eddy-covariance ...