Biologists Want NASA to Build a Quarantine Lab for Alien Germs on the Moon
International concerns over Earth possibly contaminating distant worlds with microbes—or our spacecraft potentially bringing a deadly alien pathogen…
Do Extreme Environments Shape Microbial Genomes?
Graphical abstract — University of Waterloo Evolutionary biologists have long known that DNA, the molecule that carries the…
Hidden bacteria dominate Earth’s deep soils – Sciworthy
Deep beneath Earth’s surface lies a largely unexplored ecosystem known as the Critical Zone. The Critical Zone is…