Tardigrades may be nature's ultimate survivors. While these tiny, nearly translucent animals are easily overlooked, they represent a diverse group that has successfully colonized freshwater, marine, ...

• Tardigrades are hardy enough to survive large asteroid impacts and even supernova blasts. • Water bears have survived all five mass extinctions on Earth since they first evolved about half a billion ...

A tardigrade receives a dose of CRISPR tools to alter one of its genes, and those of the eggs it is about to produce. Some species of tardigrades are highly and unusually resilient to various extreme ...

Regular readers will know I turn into a starry-eyed idiot when new tardigrade news breaks. There's just so much to love about them. Is it gauche to be a biologist and have a favorite animal? The ...

About 60 percent of all cancer patients in the United States receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment. However, this radiation can have severe side effects that often end up being too ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Laurent Palka is a microbiologist at France's ...