Another group that uses this method for dealing with the cold Antarctic climate are the tardigrades (also known as water bears). Freezing can extend the life of this animal. In fact, one tardigrade ...

Have you ever wondered if there’s an organism that can survive in any condition? From the freezing cold of space or the deep sea, to above boiling temperatures or radiation over 1,000 times the lethal ...

The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain pleas by the Tamil Nadu government and its liquor marketing arm Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation seeking transfer of petitions filed by them before ...

Researchers have developed a tiny, flexible robot that could crawl through earthquake rubble to locate survivors or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine. These soft robots, made from ...

Credit: Mars 160 Crew/The Mars Society One extremophile group that has long been considered as future Martian tourists is tardigrades. These microscopic critters are nearly indestructible and can ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.

3-D rendering of a tardigrade, showing off their cute and chubby features. Could they hold the secret to stop us from aging? Image via Depositphotos. Known more commonly as water bears, tardigrades ...

One study in particular presented how the study of tardigrades could help address the challenges involved. The study was conducted by Isadora Arantes, a NASA ambassador and astronaut candidate ...

Not the least of which was "How can humans survive in space and extraterrestrial environments"? One study in particular presented how the study of tardigrades could help address the challenges ...

Urban, and Tim Liedl from LMU Munich has managed to significantly improve such tests using a cutting-edge nanotechnology called DNA origami. In DNA origami, DNA is folded—akin to the Japanese ar ...

Have you ever heard of a Milnesium tardigradum or tardigrade? It has just received a very unusual award - invertebrate of the year 2025! The contest was run by the Guardian newspaper, with readers ...

A coloured scanning electron micrograph of a tardigrade in moss. Credit: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library. The 2025 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which took place from March 10–14 ...