DNA from Icelandic lava flows reveals how microbes move into a brand-new habitat, offering insights into early life on Earth ...

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's ...

One of the most important discoveries involved rain. Early on, most microbes on the lava came from dust, soil blown in by the ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona have captured a rare process by which life claims a brand-new environment.

The lava cactus grows in one of the most hostile environments on Earth, thriving on bare volcanic rock where almost […] ...