Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about methanogens, unique microorganisms that transform electricity and carbon dioxide into methane. The results could pave the way for microbial ...

Methanogens, such as these, seem to be a potential candidate for what life on Mars might look like -- they produce methane and live in harsh, anaerobic environments, ...

MethanoPEP -- is the name of the new joint project starting in February 2020, which focuses on the further development of methanogenic microbes as platform organisms in biotechnology. Coordinated ...

Reducing methane emissions from animal agriculture is no longer a hypothetical. At the 2025 State of the Science Summit: ...

However, methanogens seem to be a potential candidate for what life on Mars might look like — they produce methane and live in harsh, anaerobic environments, such as the guts of animals, in deep ...

This is significant as methanogens produce 70 percent of the world's methane—a gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere, ...

Methanogens are not the only human-dwelling archaea. Kowalewicz-Kulbat and other research groups have identified a growing number of halophilic, or salt-loving, gut inhabitants. “I think some ...

Rumen methanogens are major sources of anthropogenic methane emissions, and these archaea are targets in strategies aimed at reducing methane emissions. Here we show that the poorly characterised ...

Methanogens can be found in all sorts of otherwise-inhospitable places on Earth, and something like them might be responsible for the seasonal variations in methane levels on Mars.

Methanogens likely faced tough competition from photosynthetic microbes, and oxygen in shallow waters would have been toxic to them. Timothy Lyons, a geochemist at the University of California, ...

To solve it, Schnürer, Chuanxin Sun, and their colleagues turned to a genetically modified (GM) rice strain they created a decade ago that sends less carbon to the roots, resulting in the release ...