Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough to boil water on the surface. They grow from the chemicals coming out of active volcanoes.

1. Eighty-nine strains of bacteria, studied according to the index number as expressed on the descriptive chart of the Society of American Bacteriologists, fell into twelve classes. All of these ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot ...

Thermophiles in the lab Back in my laboratory in Amherst, my research team isolates new microbes from the hydrothermal vent samples and grows them under conditions that mimic those they experience ...