New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Industrial floor mats play a crucial role in workplace safety, providing slip resistance, ergonomic benefits, and protection ...

Time, water, and geologic forces have converged to create underwater sinkholes where oxygen-poor and sulfur-rich groundwater support prolific microbial mats resembling life on early Earth.

The most complex living things were colonies of microbes such as stromatolites and microbial mats. No plants, no animals, just a barren landscape of rock, river and ocean. The emergence of those ...

Specialisms: Antarctic and Arctic cyanobacteria, toxic and bloom-forming cyanobacteria, microbial mats, soil microbiology, freshwater ecosystems, climatic change I am a researcher in the Life Sciences ...