Hot springs, colourful microbes: surviving in a world that’s unique, beautiful, and hostile

I help water to freeze and ice to fall, and can make clouds rain at my command. Birds have large wings and streamlined bodies to help them stay aloft. But if you’re small enough, you don’t n...

They talk about Life on other planets, but have we even seen the limits of life here on Earth? Planet Mars is ice cold and desert dry. Except in the frozen ice-caps, there’s not a drop of wa...