Introducing Incendiamoeba cascadensis, which translates to “fire amoeba of the Cascade mountain range.” This single-celled organism can replicate at temperatures up to 145°F, a new record for a complex organism. Felix Mikus
Felix Mikus
Angela Oliverio, a microbiologist at Syracuse University, studies the edge of what’s possible.
“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
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