Defining what methane is and how it is produced is the first step to understanding its impact on the environment.

Methanogens are considered one of the earliest life forms on Earth and have a strong adaptability to extreme environments. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected unexplained methane signals several ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

Two distantly related methanogens shift the methanogenic pathway under nickel limitation, suggesting that methanogens adapt to changing bioavailability of nickel by rerouting electron flow between ...