Syracuse University biologists study the mechanisms that have allowed microbial eukaryotes to thrive in the extreme conditions of a geothermal lake. There are an estimated 8.7 million eukaryotic ...

Early Earth was no place to be. Hot, oxygen-free and subject to cataclysmic cosmic bombardments, our planet some 4.5 billion years ago was inhospitable to life as we know it. And yet from this early ...