In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life. By Robin George Andrews No ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

A virus that is big enough to be seen under an ordinary light microscope co-opts its host’s systems with the help of potentially purloined genes. The researchers found that the virus makes a complex ...

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"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life ...