Duckweed doesn’t require farmland, no forests have to be cut down for its cultivation and it can grow in most any climate, ...

Humanity’s first homes on Mars may not be poured from concrete or assembled from sleek prefabricated modules, but grown from living microbes that turn alien dust into stone. Instead of shipping heavy ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...