A report authored by scientists from Johns Hopkins University; the University of California, Irvine; and the University of California, Riverside was published Monday in Proceedings of the National ...

Researchers examine how Atacama Desert microbes use rocks as a water source. Several microbes in desert environments live inside rocks. To survive, such endolithic microbes rely on the ability of ...

Cyanobacteria living in rocks in Chile's Atacama Desert extract water from the minerals they colonize and, in doing so, change the phase of the material from gypsum to anhydrite. Researchers gained ...

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