A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

During amoeboid fission, the two daughter cells generally have few problems separating. But in 22 March Nature, David Biron and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, report that in ...