A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

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

Naegleria fowleri seen under a microscope. A 2-year-old boy who visited a hot spring died of a brain-eating amoeba, Nevada health officials and the boy’s mother say. Photo from Centers for Disease ...

An investigation is underway after a Florida resident died from a rare "brain-eating" infection. A microscopic amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, may have been contracted from tap water. The Florida ...

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T-cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...