In the recent study, researchers dehydrated tardigrades to induce a cryptobiotic state—a sort of half-dead hibernation. They ...

These microorganisms are so tough that India is launching them to space to study how they survive in extreme environments.

Discover tardigrades, tiny 'water bears' famous for survival. Learn how they endure extreme cold, heat, and space by drying ...

Tardigrades—tiny, water-dwelling creatures also known as “water bears”—are some of the toughest animals on Earth. They can ...

A new study demonstrates ice lithography, a technique to inscribe microscopic patterns on living organisms. The method, ...

A t half a millimeter long (0.02 inches) tardigrades are so small they’re hard to see without a microscope. However, these ...

New ice lithography method enables creation of nanoscale patterns on living tardigrades, advancing integration of biological ...

"Tardigrades form tuns by contracting their musculature and simultaneously expel water, which results in a decrease in ...

The team deprived the water bears of water until they were dehydrated, causing them to become tuns. Individual tardigrade tuns were then placed on carbon composite paper and cooled to -143°C ...