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Press coverage of the Asgard archaea

http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/nature/thor-and-loki-microbes-hold-clues-origin-life

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/our-origins-in-asgard/512645/

Press coverage of Hadesrchaea

UT press release

Uppsala Univ press release

DCO release

Weird, ultra-small microbes turn up in acidic mine drainage

Video (11 sec.): Using a cryoelectron microscope, researchers focus at different depths to see how ARMAN and Thermoplasma are connected

Shotgun sequencing finds nanoorganisms Sampling pink biofilms growing in acid mine drainage deep underground in the Richmond Mine, Iron Mountain, Calif. The water is almost as acidic as battery acid, with a pH of about 1.
Sampling pink biofilms growing in acid mine drainage deep underground in the Richmond Mine, Iron Mountain, Calif. The water is almost as acidic as battery acid, with a pH of about 1. (Paul Wilmes photo)

Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage

acid solutions flow across a bed of pyrite
In an underground mine tunnel, green acid solutions flow across a bed of pyrite (fool’s gold). Pink microbial biofilm communities can be seen along the margins of the stream. (Photo by Jill Banfield/UC Berkeley)

World’s smallest life form discovered / Shasta County mine yields mini-microbe

 

AN INACTIVE MINE PROVIDES ACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES

FigureAcid mine drainage in Spring Creek  downstream from the Richmond Mine, part of the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund Site nine miles northwest of Redding, Calif. Microbes inside the mine eat pyrite — fool’s gold — to produce sulfuric acid, creating the most acidic groundwater ever measured. Spring Creek flows eventually into the Sacramento River. (UC Berkeley) Source