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The Search for Extremophiles on Earth and Beyond part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.astrobiology.com/adastra/extremophiles.html
In this article, Penelope Boston examines the limits of life in a variety of Earth's extreme environments as well as the connection to possible extraterrestrial life. Also included are a number ...

Looking for life in all the wrong places - research on cryptoendoliths part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/looking-fo...
This article highlights the professional careers of two pioneer microbiologists, Imre Friedmann and his wife Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann. A personal interview with Friedmann gives readers a first hand ...

Exobiology in the Solar System and the Search for Life on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.esa.int/esapub/sp/sp1231/sp1231.pdf
This 180-page report of the European Space Agency offers an exobiological view of the solar system and describes the search for life on Mars. Exobiology sections include: chemical evolution in the ...

Extremophiles: Laboratory part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.babs.unsw.edu.au/projects.php?projectID=14
This website is home of the Extremophiles Research Laboratory at the University of New South Wales. It includes a brief introduction to the lab, contact information for team leader Rick Cavicchioli, ...

New Signs of Polar Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/0409230927...
This article from Astrobiology Magazine focuses on the large colonies of micro-organisms that have been found living beneath rocks from extreme polar habitats. These photosynthetic micro-organisms ...

Deinococcus radiodurans part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/species/Dradiodurans.shtml
This website provides general information on the radiation tolerant microbe Deinococcus radiodurans. This compilation of resources includes news articles, photographs, references, and a short lecture ...

The Goldilocks Zone part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/goldilocks-zone/
This on-line news article introduces the Goldilocks Zone, an area of space adequate for the survival of life. Initially believed to be a remarkably small region of space that didn't even include ...

Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) Workshop Report part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www2.ocean.washington.edu/lexen/
This is a draft report of the Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) workshop held at the National Science Foundation. It proposes questions such as: What conditions determine the limits of life? What ...

Life in Extreme Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://astrobiology.com/extremeophiles-and-extreme-envir...
The Astrobiology Web publishes this list of links about life in extreme environments. Subjects include general information, genomic resources, thermophilic life, endolithic organisms, bacteria in ...

Secrets of a Salty Survivor part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/20...
This Science at NASA article reports the ability of the halophilic bacteria Halobacterium to survive lethal doses of radiation, extreme dryness, and the vacuum of space. Potential applications for ...