Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme environments that life can survive in, sometimes they are useful as actual tools, ...

Scottish author Ian Green is best known for a bestselling epic fantasy series, but his first science fiction novel, Extremophile, has an anarchic and grimy power all of its own. Falling loosely into ...

A new type of extremophile life has been discovered in Chile that may help us recognize what life on Mars may look like–and that will undoubtedly help in the search for discovering that life, should ...

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 ...

Written by Susan Meikle, university news and communications, meiklesb@MiamiOH.edu. The Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica, has the smallest genome yet reported for an insect. The recently sequenced ...