#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍄🪨 Researchers at the University of #Michigan pulled #water from gas wells deep under the #GreatLakes and found a dense #ecosystem.

The water has remained #underground since the #IceAge more than 11,000 years ago. The isolated #environment contains hundreds of fungal species alongside tiny #worms and #tardigrades.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/rock-eating-fungi-great-lakes/

#fungi #microrganisms #ecology #science #groundwater #biodiversity #carbon #carboncycle #soil #biology #extremophiles

🦠🪐 New #research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that the boundary between #planets might be a lot leakier than we thought.

By sandwiching the hardy bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans between steel plates and shooting them at nearly 500 km/h (~300 mph), scientists demonstrated they can survive 30,000 times atmospheric pressure.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/extreme-microbes-can-survive-the-journey-between-planets-experiments-show

#science #space #biology #astronomy #mars #panspermia #extremophiles

Simultaneous #aerobic and #anaerobic #respiration in a Yellowstone #thermophile challenges scientific norms

#mightymicrobes #extremophiles #chemolithotroph #genomic #metabolism #bacteria #archea #funded_by_NASA #funded_by_us

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-simultaneous-aerobic-anaerobic-respiration-yellowstone.html

Discovery of #stromatolite-like #biofilms in thermal waters sheds light on ancient ecosystems.

#mightymicrobes #extremophiles #thermophiles #evolution #early_life

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-discovery-stromatolite-biofilms-thermal-ancient.html