Deinococcus radiodurans is renowned for its extraordinary resistance to ionising radiation and other environmental stresses. This bacterium employs a combination of passive and active mechanisms to ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science and humanity.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Further investigation revealed a microbe of extraordinary resilience that can flourish in a radioactive inferno that would make ...