Life
Fire amoeba breaks heat tolerance record for complex life
An amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60掳C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life
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Space
Earth extremophile can grow in聽near-Mars-like conditions
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Life
Can we finally use bacteria from crime scenes to solve cases?
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‘Zombie’ cells created by transplanting genomes into dead bacteria
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Single-celled organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
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Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the boundaries of life
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Environment
Tree bark microbiome has important overlooked role in climate
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Environment
How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars
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Life
A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life
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Cloud microbes’ colours could help us detect life on other planets
Microbes high in Earth鈥檚 stratosphere produce pigments to protect them from UV light 鈥� so similar molecules could be biosignatures of life elsewhere in the galaxy
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Life
How cocoa beans’ microbiomes are key to the finest chocolate flavours
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Earth
Deep-living microbes could ‘eat’ energy generated by earthquakes
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Life
Earth’s extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier
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Vegan cheese could be about to get a lot closer to the real thing
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