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
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. (Paul Wilmes photo)
Proteomics brings researchers closer to understanding microbes that produce acid mine drainage
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
Acid 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