Might other areas of Antarctica not covered by snow and ice also have bacteria ... draw energy from trace gases in the atmosphere. Even if it turns out this type of metabolism is only found in ...

Genes are, of course, important. But the live-in microorganisms of jewel wasps play such an important role in keeping species separate that changing gut microbes can also change whether cross ...

Very hot and very cold environments are surprisingly common ... molecular biology methods led to the surprising discovery that microbes happily inhabit both ends of this extreme temperature ...

A study published December 3 in Cell now reveals that the beneficial health effects of cold exposure are mediated in part by gut microbes. The researchers found that cold exposure dramatically ...

Scientists have detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments ... ending up as hibernating spores in the cold sediments, where they were discovered.

More of these microbes mean more greenhouse gas gets released. Still, Whyte calls the bacterium "our cold temperature champion," adding "what we can learn from this microbe may tell us a lot about ...