In the vast, arid expanse of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery: life thriving four meters beneath the surface. Covering 105,000 square kilometers, ...
There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, ...
The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...
A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.
The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...
Researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth - the Atacama Desert of Chile.