#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts
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🌍🌋 Three tectonic plates are pulling apart in northeastern #Ethiopia to create the #Danakil Depression. This geological rift contains #magma pools and acidic #springs where the average temperature exceeds 46ºC.
Scientists visit the site to study #polyextremophiles which are #bacteria that survive in environments with no oxygen and high acidity.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/danakil-depression
#geology #earthscience #biology #extremophiles #nature #science #environment #research #volcanoes #africa
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#Extremophiles that can digest #radiation ☢️ and toxicities are already used to clean up everything from oil spills to the fallout of radioactive sites.
This means we could #engineer microbes that are resistant to freezing ❄️ temperatures and high levels of radiation.
Given that #microbes 🦠 helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic #biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar process for #Mars 🔴 https://theconversation.com/how-to-engineer-microbes-to-enable-us-to-live-on-mars-253456
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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