Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it's doing respiration -- using oxygen to generate cellular energy -- differently from other organisms such as ...

A research team led by Prof. Wang Guanghua from the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered how microbial adaptive evolution and ...

Researchers have gained new insight into the formation of a group of compounds found in almost all organisms, which are reportedly shown to be a powerful antioxidant that protects cells from damage by ...

Quantifying ecosystem respiration remains challenging in aquatic ecosystems. Most investigators assume that nighttime and daytime respiration are equal. Recent studies suggest measuring dissolved ...

Cooler colors indicate rivers that are taking in more carbon dioxide than they’re emitting, acting as carbon sinks.

A stooped, bespectacled man disembarked last week from the Swedish ship Drottningholm, hurried to the campus of Pennsylvania’s sedate Swarthmore College where he delivered the first of a series of ...