Highlights: November 13
Rain Drops Help this Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Catch a Meal Pitcher plants are typically stationary while luring in their prey, but one […]
Category: Extremophiles
Highlights: October 23
A Glimmer of Hope in the Voids of Drug Screening In the search for new drugs, millions of molecules are repeatedly tested […]
Tracking a Slew of Microscopic Neurotoxin Factories
Converting mercury to its far more toxic organic form, methylmercury, doesn’t seem like the most intuitive detox strategy, but scientists suspect that […]
Antarctic Lichens Shelter Fungal Boom Towns
Antarctic lichens like this Usnea antarctica can be hundreds of years old and can, although fungal symbionts themselves, provide microhabitats for an […]
Extreme fungi: No light, no oxygen, and a lot of salt
Off the coast of Saudi Arabia, about 850 meters down, there is a lake at the bottom of the Red Sea. The […]
Keeping it together
Scientists explore how halophilic proteins survive high salt Proteins are a cell’s machinery. A cell’s surface is cluttered with protein receptors that […]