#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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🦠🪐 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
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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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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