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 ...

Extreme microbes are organisms that can survive and even thrive in extreme environments. Extreme thermophiles are bacteria that live at temperatures normally only found in hot springs and hydrothermal ...

Arctic, subarctic, and alpine regions support widely distributed populations of thermophilic bacteria among habitats where ambient temperatures vary from below lower psychrophilic to above upper ...

The race to develop alternative fuels is well and truly on. With the full externalities of fossil fuel use now fairly clear, we're going to need a better energy storage medium. The fact that ethanol ...

Blue, dark peach, bright red, orange — thermophilic organisms make the hot springs so colorful you’ll want to grab your selfie stick. Some organisms really thrive in the heat. In the geysers of ...

Scientists have detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean. The bacterial spores might provide a unique opportunity to trace seepages of ...

Microbiologists have discovered a new glycocin, a small antimicrobial peptide with a sugar group attached, which is produced by a thermophilic bacterium and is stable at relatively high temperatures.

Warm-blooded creatures maintain a relatively stable body temperature that cannot tolerate the stress of intense heat (or cold). When it's too hot proteins destabilize and degrade--in some cases, with ...

Microorganisms are found everywhere, even under the most extreme environmental conditions. These include extremely high temperature environments in which growth of certain Archaea – the most primitive ...