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

Greenland: a crucial player in the Arctic chess game, where local culture meets global interests amidst changing climates.

Until not that long ago, scientists widely agreed on the evolutionary journey that plants took from the oceans to the land. They thought that algae evolved into mosses and their relatives, known as ...

Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

Old Giant Pandoravirus yedoma holds the record as the oldest virus ever revived from permafrost, having remained frozen for 48,500 years before scientists successfully brought it back to life in ...

In a lab far from the Arctic, a virus that had been locked in ice for tens of thousands of years was coaxed back into activity, proving that some ancient pathogens can endure almost unimaginable ...

Kerala has reported 170 cases and 42 deaths due to amoebic meningoencephalitis, commonly known as brain-eating amoeba infection, in 2025, the government informed the Parliament on Friday. In a written ...

Brain-eating amoebas have taken up residence in Tucson's water supply as recent tests have shown their presence in 12 wells. While the discovery of the killer amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, is ...