When DNA Went Mobile Some Archaea Jumped Out of the Hot Tub

By all scientific accounts, conditions on planet Earth were pretty inhospitable in the early days. The earliest organisms, such as extremophilic archaea, readily adapted to what we would view today as uninhabitable climates. However, as the planet evolved and slowly cooled, moderate conditions began to pop up around the globe, allowing extremophiles to move to more moderate conditions. Now, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, believe they have found how