Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A North Carolina teenager who died after contracting a rare brain infection caused by a microscopic amoeba was most likely exposed ...

A single-celled blob living in a California hot spring has smashed a heat tolerance record for an entire domain of life. The newly described “fire amoeba” can grow at 63° Celsius (145° Fahrenheit), a ...

Biologists have discovered a record-breaking “fire amoeba” that thrives at 63°C (145°F), rewriting the rules for complex cells. For decades, scientists have relied on a simple rule of thumb: ...

"There's a very deep curiosity and desire to understand life at its limits and at its most extreme," she says. "And where that boundary is and what truly are our constraints." It's not unlike ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Lassen Volcanic National Park offers a wondrous landscape of hot springs and other geothermal features in the Cascade mountains of California, fueled by molten rock deep below the ...

The teenager, named by his family as 17-year-old Moises Ponce Mendoza, visited the North Carolina center more than two weeks before his death on Monday, Aug. 31 WRAL/Youtube A North Carolina teenager ...

Found in volcanic streams in California, the newfound organism has the highest heat tolerance of any complex life on Earth. By K. R. Callaway Near the forested trails of Lassen Volcanic National Park ...

Why is it outside a restaurant? El Futuro is not a restaurant. The location where the amoeba was found is next to a community-based nonprofit mental health organization. Correct. DHHS can't ...

Barely-there particles called neutrinos just got caught acting even more ethereal. With tiny masses and no electric charge, the subatomic particles rarely interact with anything, making them difficult ...

Dolly Parton’s sister Stella reveals the last thing that the country star asked her before her death in August. Stella said that she and Dolly spoke every Tuesday morning on the phone over coffee.

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man-made creek outside a Durham mental health center remains closed as state investigators say it was the most likely source of exposure to the brain-eating amoeba that killed ...