A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a microscopic organism that should not exist, at least not according to the ...

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce at a piping hot 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit), higher than ...

The study describes how the thawed viruses happily invaded the cultured amoeba cells, and in a matter of hours, turned them into factories to produce more ancient viruses. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

During a time of year when most people look to the sky, tracking northern lights and smoky fires, many Inland Northwest residents will remember the summer of 2004 more for a rash of yellow blobs that ...