Sentence examples for hardy microbes from inspiring English sources

Molten sulfur bubbles up from the bottom, and the sinister concatenation of acid and heat and who knows what else is too much, apparently, even for Yellowstone's hardy microbes.

This is not a galactic commentary on our throwaway society, but a noble sacrifice – scientists don't want to risk contaminating Saturn's potentially life-hosting moons with any hardy microbes the craft could be harbouring.

On Earth, hardy microbes survive in fumaroles and hot springs, such as those at Yellowstone National Park.

In a few cases, hardy microbes commonly found in hot springs and volcanic islands also appeared in the mix, perhaps tracked into the office following a vacation to St. Lucia or Yellowstone.

For one, anthrax bacteria are hardy microbe.

This hardy microbe can weather blasts of radiation 1500 times stronger than doses that would wipe out any other organism.

"In order to avoid the unlikely possibility of Cassini someday colliding with one of these moons and contaminating them with any hardy Earth microbes that might have survived on the spacecraft, NASA has chosen to safely dispose of the spacecraft in the atmosphere of Saturn," the space agency says on its website.

Still, life is hardy, so microbes could last for much longer than more complex organisms on a dying Earth.

Over the past two years, his team worked out how to make the microbes hardier and pass on their synthetic genetic bases more faithfully when they divided.

Critics say that much of the marketing for such goods is misguided fear-mongering and that the spread of antimicrobial products will spur the evolution of even hardier, more resistant microbes while suppressing the development of children's immune systems.

Dr. James R. Baker Jr. at the University of Michigan has developed what he and colleagues jokingly refer to as a salad dressing that can kill many types of microbes, including hardy anthrax spores.