#Archaeon

Robert Carter | Cracked Hat Illustration

@crackedhat.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

‘What is Life?’ - Cover and interior illustrations for the March 2026 issue of Quebec Science Magazine.

#Life #Creation #ApocalypticLandscape #PrimordialOoze #SingleCellOrganism #Archaeon #Abiogenesis #EditorialIllustration #Illustration

Cathexis Zero

@cathexiszero.bsky.social

8 months ago

Archaeon the Everchosen, a Big Bad Evil Guy clad in black armor atop a giant pink monster with a gold hero making a doomed charge against it.

A closeup of Archaeon the Everchosen

A side view of Archaeon the Everchosen showing off some chaos freehand.

A doomed Stormcast Eternal before being destroyed by Archaeon

I painted Archaeon the Everchosen because I wanted to paint something different and chaos, as opposed to my Tyranids and Space Wolves.

#archaeon #everchosen #chaos #ageofsigmar #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #slavestodarkness

DisabledWorld

@disabled-world.com

8 months ago

Tiny Genome Redefines Limits of Cellular Life Scholarly analysis of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, an archaeon with the smallest genome ever discovered, challenging cellular life definitions.

Tiny Genome Redefines Limits of #CellularLife

Scholarly analysis of #Candidatus #Sukunaarchaeum #mirabile, an #archaeon with the smallest #genome ever discovered, challenging cellular life definitions.

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Mart Krupovic

@mkrupovic.bsky.social

1 year ago

Two distinct archaeal type IV pili structures formed by proteins with identical sequence - Nature Communications Type IV pili (T4P) are long surface appendages assembled from small pilin proteins that participate in diverse functions such as adhesion and biofilm formation in archaea. Here, the authors show that ...

Archaeal pili are wild! In #archaeon Saccharolobus islandicus the same adehesive type 4 pilin exists in 4 different conformations forming two structurally very different pili. Collaboration with the groups of @jerryknowsnothing.bsky.social and Ed Egelman. www.nature.com/articles/s41...