Microbes in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park have ... was essential to researchers when they were searching for an enzyme that could withstand boiling. It ended up being fundamental ...

Yellowstone National Park’s famoushot springshave long fascinated visitors with their vibrant colors and steaming pools. For ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

Minerals and algae form patterns in the scalding hot water at Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National ... became the foundation of PCR tests. An enzyme from the robust bug can handle ...

The microbes Bhaya studies, in particular, are extremophiles — organisms that thrive in the intensely hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. For a long time, these microbes were studied in ...

Its 10,000 hydrothermal features—steamy vents, sulfurous mud pots, hot springs—support a broad diversity of microbes. Among them, unusual creatures that microbiologists call extremophiles ...

Scientists have revealed two never-before-seen groups of microbes that live in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Researchers from Montana State University made the discovery ...

DNA sequencing was revolutionized after scientists discovered a new bacterium in the hot springs of Yellowstone ... specifically to the cold, such as enzymes whose optimal activity temperature ...