Scientists are warning that a microscopic predator is quietly exploiting the world’s warming and aging water systems, ...

Scientists are raising concerns about free-living amoebae, resilient microbes that can survive in water systems and enable ...

A group of environmental and public health scientists is sounding the alarm on a largely overlooked but increasingly ...

Human norovirus and adenovirus, two major causes of viral gastroenteritis, can persist for extended periods inside ...

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 ...

Karl Landsteiner University team shows gut viruses persisting in water amoebae, urging an evaluation of water safety rules. Krems (Austria), 18. December 2025 – Human norovirus and adenovirus, two ...

Scientists have discovered a single-celled organism in the hot springs of Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is not only the first eukaryote to grow at 63 degrees Celsius (approximately 145 degrees ...

The recent deaths of two children from a rare but usually fatal brain infection transmitted by organisms thriving in freshwater have raised concerns about the risks of swimming in lakes and rivers ...

Parts of the Lassen Volcanic National Park in California’s Cascade Range resemble the gateway to a hellish underworld, with pools of boiling water and bubbling mud where almost nothing can live, due ...

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce at a piping hot 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit), higher than ...

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