Between 1992 and 1996, the Little Dipper was the first and only watercraft in Yellowstone National Park that could safely ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

One of the driest places on Earth, featuring unique rock formations, salt flats, and high-altitude geysers, resembling Martian landscapes. A vibrant hot spring known for its rainbow-colored bands ...

Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Microbial life in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life's exploitation of oxygen, ...

The microbes Bhaya studies, in particular, are extremophiles — organisms that thrive in the intensely hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. For a long time, these microbes were studied in ...

For a long time, microbes like the ones in Yellowstone's hot springs were studied in isolation. Molecular ecologist Devaki Bhaya says we should be... The colorful community of microbes hiding in ...

The work builds on more than two decades of scientific research in Yellowstone National Park ... temperature environments—were found in both springs, whose temperatures hover around 190 degrees ...

But what about a virus that doesn’t make people sick — just the bacteria that infects people, effectively destroying it? That’s what bacteriophages — or, simply, phages — are ...