Hokkaido University’s ongoing research into hydrogels has borne fresh fruit: a new polymer-based material that, unlike other polymers, hardens when heated – by 1,800 times. At room temperatures the ...

1. Eighty-nine strains of bacteria, studied according to the index number as expressed on the descriptive chart of the Society of American Bacteriologists, fell into twelve classes. All of these ...

Warm-blooded creatures maintain a relatively stable body temperature that cannot tolerate the stress of intense heat (or cold). When it's too hot proteins destabilize and degrade--in some cases, with ...

As the temperature climbs, most humans look for ways to cool down fast. But for some species of microorganisms, a midsummer heat wave isn’t nearly hot enough. These heat lovers, known as thermophiles, ...

Arctic, subarctic, and alpine regions support widely distributed populations of thermophilic bacteria among habitats where ambient temperatures vary from below lower psychrophilic to above upper ...

Scientists have detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean. The bacterial spores might provide a unique opportunity to trace seepages of ...

Heat-loving organisms live where the water is hot but the gene pool is shallow. Genetic analysis has shown that so-called thermophiles have fewer mutations in their protein-coding genes than do their ...

Confirmation of the genome structure of 256 recently discovered micro-organisms from particularly high-temperature environments in Korea will boost the nation's biotech industry, according to the ...

A new study shows how cranking up the heat causes cell death through the loss of a subset of key proteins. Workflow of the LiP-MS-based analysis of protein stability (1). Thermophiles thrive at ...