Wherever we look on Earth – even in the most inhospitable places – we find life. But how do organisms manage to survive such difficult conditions? Lorna Dougan explains how physicists are helping to ...

The book “Extremophiles: Diversity, Adaptation and Applications” consists of fourteen chapters, of which, the first deals with the overview of all the major types of extremophiles and their mechanisms ...

Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in extreme environments from deep-sea trenches to mountaintops. Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile conditions could inform scientists ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Many of them are tiny, all of them are tough, and they could be your most distant ancestors. True ...

Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in extreme environments from deep-sea trenches to mountaintops. Learning more about how these extremophiles survive in hostile conditions could inform scientists ...

I recently wrote about the important idea that life deserves reverence, but not worship. This brings us to a fascinating array of critters that show the resilience of life. Enter: extremophiles. This ...

Protein fragments identified new types of extremophiles, which survive harsh environments on Earth, and could someday help astrobiologists identify alien life. Perfectly adapted microorganisms live in ...

These extremophile microbes are of interest to astrobiologists who are searching for life on other planets. Researchers currently use individual gene sequencing to identify Earth-bound microbes, based ...