Scientists are looking for CO2-gobbling microbes in extreme environments — like your home How the microorganisms lurking in your dishwasher could turn out to be climate superstars.

Copper has emerged as an ally in the battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Copper sulfate liquids, for example, have ...

A forest fire sweeps everything in its path. It drastically alters the soil environment, causing extreme temperatures, ...

However, it turns out that one extreme environment harboring a specialized community of highly adapted microbes is much closer to home: inside microwaves. This finding has now been reported for ...

The organisms discovered sustain on chemosynthesis rather than sunlight and are clustered around abundant methane seeps in ...

A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed the presence of thousands of previously unknown microbes thriving in the hadal zone, the deepest and most extreme region ofEarth’s oceans. Located between 6 ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

A recent underwater expedition has revealed a thriving network of creatures at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. These ...

Extreme environments – such as the International Space Station – are an exceptional source of novel microbial species and metabolites. Through evolution, these microbes have developed novel ...

04. February 2025/Bergen. XTREAM is a new international research project that will study resilient microorganisms from extreme environments to harness their properties for applications in medicine ...