Diana Northup can get extreme about extremophiles, microbes that thrive in environments that would terminate us humans in seconds flat. "We think we're superior beings, but these guys are really ...

A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has ...

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that they could potentially live on the Red Planet.

Aptly dubbed extremophiles, they have numerous scientists asking how, and what, they can learn from these remarkable organisms. The temperatures and conditions where extremophiles exist mimic ...

Climate change solutions might be lurking in the dark recesses of your home, according to microbiologist James Henriksen, and ...

Among them, unusual creatures that microbiologists call extremophiles, which have figured in significant scientific discoveries. Lightning strikes above the Fan and Mortar geysers in Yellowstone's ...

Usually, but not invariably, single celled organisms that can survive and thrive in what humans would consider extreme conditions – radioactive, low or high pressure, acidic or alkaline, very ...

Discover how hibernating animals and microscopic extremophiles could revolutionize human space travel. Perspective: The ...

An international team of scientists from India, Saudi Arabia, and the US has identified 26 novel bacterial species growing i ...

Puna Bio announced that it had closed a new round of founding led by Corteva, Inc., through its Corteva Catalyst platform.