As often as she can, Northup and other members of SLIME (Subsurface Life in Mineral Environments), a loose affiliation of cave scientists working on geomicrobiological interactions in caves, don their ...

Extremophiles, as their name suggests, are organisms that can live in extreme conditions, many of which are inhospitable for other terrestrial organisms. These fascinating organisms have been ...

In an unlikely twist, the creatures that thrive in some of the world’s harshest locations are also fans of just about every condition, and their abundance is good news for biotech on an industrial ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that expands the known boundaries of life habitats, scientists have uncovered extremophiles thriving in a blue ‘volcanic goo’ deep in the ocean. This finding builds on ...

Extremophiles are tiny microbes that are able to thrive in hot, salty and even acidic or gaseous environments that would kill other forms of life. Now scientists are using these hardy dwellers of the ...

La Puna, a high-altitude plateau straddling Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, is not for the faint of heart. Visitors must endure a 10-hour drive from the closest city, battle altitude sickness at ...

You can find life in the strangest of places. If you haven’t read about the shark found swimming in and out of a segment of an undersea volcano, then you really need to get up to date. When you think ...

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As we are all well aware, this is a fiercely debated topic. While there is convincing evidence which indicates that other planets could possibly harbor life, we still lack concrete evidence proving ...

In 1956 at Oregon State University, nuclear researchers found that the bacterium D. radiodurans could withstand levels of radiation thousands of times what most animals can. The core of a nuclear ...

In recent years, biology’s had a bit of a love affair with extremophiles, microbes that manage to live in boiling hot springs, deep mines, or other incredibly harsh environments. These organisms are ...

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 where ...