Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously ...

In a boiling corner of northern California, a single-celled creature is quietly rewriting the rules for how hot complex life can get. The so-called “fire amoeba” does not just tolerate temperatures ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. The Missouri health department says this is only the state's third case on record, but ...

A microscopic creature from a boiling hot spring in Northern California has just reset the upper limit for how hot complex life can run. The newly described “fire amoeba” thrives at temperatures that ...

Parts of the Lassen Volcanic National Park in California’s Cascade Range resemble the gateway to a hellish underworld, with pools of boiling water and bubbling mud where almost nothing can live, due ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Missouri resident is in the ICU with primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), an infection caused by the “brain-eating” amoeba ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS) – A person has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Broward County, Florida, health officials say. The Florida Department of Health ...

A video capturing the movement of Arcella as it travels across a glass surface. The scale bar represents 50 μm, and the playback speed is 10×. An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido ...