#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #extremophiles, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ 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
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Memories from Februaries spent in the #Atacama desert. Team members would take nights off to recover from the heat and do laundry in town, pick up supplies at the hardware store.
Often we had to get those foil-faced windshield covers to protect computers that would overheat in the sun.
Driving through that otherworldly #landscape was exhilarating.
#extremophilia #chile #nasa #marsrover #seti #antofagasta #fieldscience #extremophiles #desert #mondaymemories
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🦠🪐 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.
#science #space #biology #astronomy #mars #panspermia #extremophiles