Last night's episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey looked at the tiniest elements of our universe, exploring plant and animal cells and the role they play in our lives. Host Neil deGrasse Tyson took ...

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A photograph of the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus, in the center of a phylogeny of CAHS, the largest of the six desiccation-related protein families analyzed in this study. Tardigrades may be ...

Some species of tardigrades are highly and unusually resilient to various extreme conditions fatal to most other forms of life. The genetic basis for these exceptional abilities remains elusive.

Microscopic tardigrades—plump, eight-legged arthropod relatives—are nearly indestructible, and their durability superpower may have helped them weather the deadliest mass extinction in Earth’s history ...

Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a new ...

At first glance, the microscopic creatures known as tardigrades don't appear that hardy. Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly ...

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...

Just over five years ago, on Feb. 22, 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be the ...

Harvard researchers identified a new fossilized species of tardigrade — known as “water bears” — scientists reported in an Aug. 6 paper in “Communications Biology.” Researchers used confocal laser ...