Seeing any insect scuttle around your home is cause for concern, but when it’s a bug that bites, all bets are off. Of course, a slew of different bugs can cruise around your place, making it ...

nov. (strain WWM1085). Archaea are a distinct domain of life—along with bacteria and eukaryotes (i.e., organisms with a cell nucleus such as animals, plants and fungi). Although they appear ...

Having an itchy bug bite can drive you nuts and make you willing to do anything to resolve it. Thankfully, there are several bug bite treatments to soothe the scratching. While most of these ...

Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was “being exploited in the wild.” In a brief update, Mozilla said it updated the browser to Firefox version 136.0.4 ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...

“It’s very likely that [archaea] use them for cell-to-cell communication ... As a message, RNA is transient. This is a feature, not a bug: It can have only short-term effects on other cells before it ...

In an article published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the authors discussed the involvement of archaea, a lesser-known but important component of the human microbiome, in various ...

Metagenomics studies the structure and function of genetically diverse organisms found in a bulk sample, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea, single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus.

Through fecal samples, the researchers investigated the gut bugs of 1,627 male and female children aged between one and 13, including some diagnosed with autism. They identified 14 archaea ...

Growing up, mosquito bites quickly became itchy, inflamed bumps on my skin. One summer, a bump on my foot got so bad I couldn’t wear anything but open-toed shoes for the greater part of a week.

Their study shows that these archaea are very 'picky eaters', which might drive their hosts to change the menu. A parasite that not only feeds of its host, but also makes the host change its own ...