Lonar Lake, a 56,000-year-old crater in India, mysteriously turned pink due to salt-loving microbes called Haloarchaea thriving in its hyper-saline, alkaline waters. Low rainfall and high temperatures ...
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Eight deaths have been reported in Florida due to a "flesh-eating" bacterial infection, according to state health officials. The Florida Department of Health has confirmed 13 total ...
ABSTRACT: A Saline lake is a body of water that has salinity greater than 3 g/l (0.3%), while a hypersaline lake is a water body that has the moderate 35 g/l (3.5%) salt of oceans. Hypersaline lakes, ...
ABSTRACT: A Saline lake is a body of water that has salinity greater than 3 g/l (0.3%), while a hypersaline lake is a water body that has the moderate 35 g/l (3.5%) salt of oceans. Hypersaline lakes, ...
What does a scientist do when faced with the task of naming a newly discovered, spongelike orange fungus from a tropical rain forest in Malaysia? Why, name it after the cartoon character SpongeBob ...
L'adjectif halophile est régulièrement employé pour désigner des organismes résistants à la présence de sel à de fortes concentrations dans leur milieu (halotolérance), voire qui en ont besoin pour ...
The idea of Mars being host to extraterrestrial life, either currently or long ago in the past, has beguiled scientists for centuries. The discovery of frozen water on the Red Planet gave scientists ...
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has made consistent and puzzling findings while roaming the barren surface of the planet’s Gale Crater: mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish ...