by Elio — Life with­out air – a term coined by Louis Pas­teur, the dis­cov­erer of anaer­o­bio­sis – has been thought to be ex­clu­sively a prop­erty of mi­crobes, be they prokary­otic or eu­kary­otic. Mul­ti­cel­lu­lar or­gan­isms were thought to lack this tal­ent. Un­til re­cently that is, when an Ital­ian and Dan­ish group led by Roberto Danovaro looked at an un­usual-sound­ing habi­tat...