People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar system – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heat-loving organisms live where the water is hot but the gene pool is shallow. Genetic analysis has shown that so-called thermophiles have fewer mutations in their protein-coding genes than do their ...

As the temperature climbs, most humans look for ways to cool down fast. But for some species of microorganisms, a midsummer heat wave isn’t nearly hot enough. These heat lovers, known as thermophiles, ...

A new study shows how cranking up the heat causes cell death through the loss of a subset of key proteins. Workflow of the LiP-MS-based analysis of protein stability (1). Thermophiles thrive at ...

You report that mitochondria operate at temperatures around 6 to 10° C higher than the rest of the cell (13 May, p 18). There is a broad consensus that the mitochondria within eukaryotic cells are the ...

The infant Earth was a harsh place for life to begin. The oceans were covered with ice, the climate was as forbidding as modern Antarctica. And every few tens of millions of years, giant asteroids ...