In a boiling corner of northern California, a single-celled creature is quietly rewriting the rules for how hot complex life can get. The so-called “fire amoeba” does not just tolerate temperatures ...

The amoeba was discovered at a hot spring in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. (Credit: Dukas/Getty Images) Angela Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport discovered the ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health department says this is only the state's third case on record, but ...

A video capturing the movement of Arcella as it travels across a glass surface. The scale bar represents 50 μm, and the playback speed is 10×. An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido ...

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