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One person recently spent 100 days underwater. Another lived 500 days in a cave. What can we learn from such extreme experiences?
Mice pups living on mountain tops reserve their energy for growth rather than warmth. When they get too cold, they conserve energy by slowing down their metabolic processes.
How is NASA preparing astronauts for high-stress living on the Moon? Turns out the answer is by living in undersea bases just off the coast of Florida in a lab known as Aquarius Reef Base.
Male plainfin midshipman fish take care of their nests and offspring, but climate change is threatening their ability to do so.
A study is being done in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression - a natural environment like no other on earth - to understand how microbes thrive in extreme environments such as those found on Mars.
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