Many people associate NASA with exploring new worlds in space, but few know it's also finding new microscopic ecosystems right here. Years ago, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a scientist who decontaminates ...

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 ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

Microbes that are used for health, agricultural, or other applications need to be able to withstand extreme conditions and, ideally, the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term ...

In the steamy waters of Yellowstone National Park's hot springs lives a type of bacterium that could help make industrial bleaching cheaper and more environmentally friendly. Scientists have found ...

In recent years scientists have found microbes in active volcanoes, antarctic lake floors, deep-sea thermal vents, sulfuric lakes–places previously thought too hot, cold, salty, high pressured, acidic ...

Guoqiang Chen has spent most of his 4-decade scientific career training microbes to make plastic. And he sees PhaBuilder, which he cofounded in 2021 with two of his former students, Yuxuan Lan and ...

Microorganisms may be able to survive just under the surface of Mars for far longer than researchers thought. In a new set of experiments, researchers found that dried-up bacteria could stay alive in ...