The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

Researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth - the Atacama Desert of Chile.

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

Researchers describe a new way to separate extracellular from intracellular genetic material, allowing better insights into ...

Washington, D.C.-The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that ...

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...

Over a thousand years ago, the hundreds of giant geoglyphs carved into the desert in northern Chile were a bustling scene.

This image of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, in collaboration with NASA. This image of the Milky Way, created by NASA ...

Inspired by a remarkable journey a century ago, Ford challenged Lexie Limitless to become the first person to drive around ...

Conservation efforts in South America are overly focused on the Amazon rainforest, neglecting other critical ecosystems such ...

Isidora Olave opens a package containing a T-shirt, a skirt and a handful of glitter stickers shipped to her front door in ...