Deep Biosphere News Today

Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of microbial life in the region to date.

Research into the deep biosphere requires an understanding of both the microbial community at a given site and the geochemical and hydrological factors that support that microbial community. To highlight the interplay between geochemistry and microbiology in these deep environments, we characterized the hydrogeologic and geochemical systems of a 2.7 Ga banded iron formation within the Canadian Shield in the Soudan Underground Mine State Park in Minnesota, USA, a site known to host a lithotrophic...

The conditions within this "deep biosphere" had been studied by scientists since the mid-1990s, particularly on how life thrived in an environment that is food-deprived and extremely isolated.

Penn State Centre Stage's "The Wild Party," the third annual Centre Film Festival, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at Penn State York and a traveling exhibit on the 19th Amendment at Penn State Law are among the cultural highlights at the University this weekend and next week.

Penn State Centre Stage's "The Wild Party," the third annual Centre Film Festival, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at Penn State York and a traveling exhibit on the 19th Amendment at Penn State Law are among the cultural highlights at the University this weekend and next week.

With “spooky season” underway at Penn State, during the 10th week of the fall semester, students can participate in virtual and in-person activities in and around State College as Halloween

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto, will give the virtual talk, “Imaging Habitable Worlds –

The Homecoming parade, WPSU's Eventapalooza, the Penn State Horticulture Show and a lecture by "Hamilton" star Bryan Terrell Clark at Penn State Harrisburg, are among the cultural highlights at the University this weekend and next week.

    The history of life on Earth is largely microbial. “You can certainly run a world without dinosaurs and humans, but you can’t do it without microbes.’ says Harvard Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Andrew H. Knoll. “For vast stretches of time, bacteria and other single-celled organisms were the only life on Earth. The age of the dinosaurs to the present day,” Knoll said, represents roughly 5 percent of the history of life.” “W...