#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #extremophiles, aggregated by home.social.
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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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🔬🐻 Microscope footage shows a baby water bear (#tardigrade) breaking free from its egg after its mother drags babies around in a sack of shed exoskeleton. A tardigrade researcher explains that water bears use two egg-laying strategies – either in the shed skin with smooth eggs, or freely in the environment with ornamented eggs that prevent them from washing away in rain.
👉 https://nautil.us/witness-the-rare-birth-of-a-water-bear-1244573/
#tardigrades #microscopy #biology #science #nature #extremophiles #animals #birth
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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
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A Crew Was Searching For Shipwrecks In Lake Michigan—But They Found Something Completely Different
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a62501711/lake-michigan-holes/ <-- shared media / technical article
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“ • A survey of Lake Michigan located at least 40 large craters on the lakebed.
• Initial studies highlighted the spots as unknown shapes, but additional research revealed the craters are filled with marine life.
• Researchers expect to investigate further, seeing how these craters formed and if they’re really sinkholes…"
#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #groundwater #crater #sinkhole #bathymetry #topobathy #remotesensing #sonar #LakeMichigan #Michigan #research #GreatLakes #geomorphology #geomorphometry #ROV #ecology #ecosystems #cyanobacteria #WisconsinShipwreckCoastNationalMarineSanctuary #Sheboygan #Wisconsin #extremeecosystems #extremophiles #offgassing #hydrocarbons
@NOAA