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The Naked Eye Can Spy This Enormous Bacterium
The Naked Eye Can Spy This Enormous Bacterium
At about 2 centimeters in length, Thiomargarita magnifica tests scientists’ notions of how large microbes can grow.
At about 2 centimeters in length, Thiomargarita magnifica tests scientists’ notions of how large microbes can grow.
water, microbiology
A Protist Hosts Both Green Algae and Purple Bacteria Symbionts
Abby Olena, PhD | Jun 11, 2021 | 3 min read
Having two different endosymbionts may allow the ciliate Pseudoblepharisma tenue to live in both oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor zones of the muddy bogs of southern Germany.
Microbial Life Discovered 2.4 Km Deep in Canadian Mine
Catherine Offord | Aug 23, 2019 | 4 min read
Scientists cultivate sulfate-reducing microbes from some of the oldest-known water on Earth.
Definitive Evidence for Water Ice on the Moon: Study
Ashley Yeager | Aug 21, 2018 | 2 min read
Data from the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft show frost on the lunar north and south poles.
Mars Has a Lake of Liquid Water: Study
Ashley Yeager | Jul 25, 2018 | 2 min read
Radar data indicate that the Red Planet’s southern polar ice sheets cover a 20-kilometer-wide body of water.
Microbial Ice-Makers
Jef Akst | Apr 26, 2016 | 2 min read
How one bacterium turns water into ice at nonfreezing temperatures