Abandoned Footnotes

It's the summer solstice here in New Zealand, a day which always seems full of meaning: a more suitable end for the year than the astron...

I haven't done one of these in a couple of months. So, for your Monday (or Sunday - we're ahead of the world here in NZ) reading pl...

R. John Parkes , a researcher at the University of Cardiff, Wales, studies microbes found in core samples collected by the  Ocean Drilling P...

ARMAN archaea, orange circles, with an arcaheon of the thermoplasma order, below them. The small orange particles are viruses. Nobody know...

Not exactly extremophiles tonight. But I found a really neat article about a lovely sea slug , Elysia Chlorotica, which "steals" t...

The Pompeii worm (photo credit: Wikimedia commons ). After  water bears (which are apparently pretty common - I didn't know, but you c...

Cute, no ? These creatures can withstand the vacuum of space and suspend their metabolism for up to ten years. They can also survive being h...

The toughest of them all . Will sustain a radiation dose between 5 and 15 thousand times higher than the dose that would kill a human being,...