For more information about extremophiles check the Wikipedia article here
The ultimate goal of all current Mars missions and observations is that of finding evidence of life or, on the contrary, collect data that would once and for all flag the planet as barren and devoid of life. Recent findings from scientists at University of Florida both help ease and complicate this quest after it’s [...]
Mon, May 2, 2011
Some species of bacteria can survive virtually anywhere: in acids, in nuclear waste, at extremely low or high temperatures, at extreme pressures, and so on; extreme microbes that survive on gases thrown out by Siberian hot springs may have played an extremely important role in the formation of our planet’s atmosphere and its composition, a [...]
Tue, Nov 27, 2007
Scientists from the University of Delaware and the University of California at Riverside have thawed ice estimated to be at least a million years old from above Lake Vostok (update - first samples taken from lake Vostok). This lake is hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica and has been This [...]
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Fri, Jan 11, 2013
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