A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of an atmosphere.

During a time of year when most people look to the sky, tracking northern lights and smoky fires, many Inland Northwest residents will remember the summer of 2004 more for a rash of yellow blobs that ...

The study describes how the thawed viruses happily invaded the cultured amoeba cells, and in a matter of hours, turned them into factories to produce more ancient viruses. Share on Facebook (opens in ...