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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In our quest for the search of life elsewhere in the universe, the observational bias from our one sample of life – our own planet – runs rampant. Earth is indeed the only body currently known to hold ...

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 ...