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We discovered an organism that lives at blistering temperatures – but what allows it to take the heat?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kristen ...
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California’s ‘fire amoeba’ reproduces at 145°F, sets new heat record for complex life

A single-celled organism collected from a steaming creek in California can reproduce at temperatures that would stop any other known complex life form. Researchers discovered the amoeba in Lassen ...