Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres

Soil microbial legacies differ following drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing cycles

(2021) Annelein Meisner et al.   ISME Journal

The Venus Life Equation

(2021) Noam R. Izenberg et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Venus’ Mass Spectra Show Signs of Disequilibria in the Middle Clouds

(2021) Rakesh Mogul et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Life on Venus claim faces strongest challenge yet

(2021) Alexandra Witze   NATURE

Water Activities of Acid Brine Lakes Approach the Limit for Life

(2021) Kathleen C. Benison et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Stormy water on Mars: The distribution and saturation of atmospheric water during the dusty season

(2020) Anna A. Fedorova et al.   SCIENCE

The water abundance in Jupiter’s equatorial zone

(2020) Cheng Li et al.   Nature Astronomy

Microbiome and ecology of a hot spring-microbialite system on the Trans-Himalayan Plateau

(2020) Chayan Roy et al.   Scientific Reports

Recent Advances in Monitoring, Sampling, and Sensing Techniques for Bioaerosols in the Atmosphere

(2020) Ehsanul Kabir et al.   ACS Sensors

The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere

(2020) Sara Seager et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus

(2020) Jane S. Greaves et al.   Nature Astronomy

Re-analysis of the 267 GHz ALMA observations of Venus

(2020) I. A. G. Snellen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Global phosphorus dynamics in terms of phosphine

(2020) Wanyi Fu et al.   npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Genome-based classification of two halotolerant extreme acidophiles, Acidihalobacter prosperus V6 (=DSM 14174 =JCM 32253) and 'Acidihalobacter ferrooxidans' V8 (=DSM 14175 =JCM 32254) as two new species, Acidihalobacter aeolianus sp. nov. and Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans sp. nov., respectively

(2019) Himel N. Khaleque et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial ageing and longevity

(2019) Roy Z. Moger-Reischer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds

(2018) Sanjay S. Limaye et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Chloride ion tolerance and pyrite bioleaching capabilities of pure and mixed halotolerant, acidophilic iron- and sulfur-oxidizing cultures

(2018) Himel N. Khaleque et al.   MINERALS ENGINEERING

Wooden owl that redefines Earth's biosphere may yet catapult a fungus into space

(2018) John E. Hallsworth   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Aspergillus penicillioidesdifferentiation and cell division at 0.585 water activity

(2017) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Water is an active matrix of life for cell and molecular biology

(2017) Philip Ball   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glycerol enhances fungal germination at the water-activity limit for life

(2016) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

H-Bonding of Sulfuric Acid with Its Decomposition Products: An Infrared Matrix Isolation and Computational Study of the H2SO4·H2O·SO3 Complex

(2016) Mark Rozenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

An advanced modeling study on the impacts and atmospheric implications of multiphase dimethyl sulfide chemistry

(2016) Erik Hans Hoffmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrogen bonding in cyclic complexes of carboxylic acid–sulfuric acid and their atmospheric implications

(2016) Hailiang Zhao et al.   RSC Advances

Water-, pH- and temperature relations of germination for the extreme xerophilesXeromyces bisporus(FRR 0025),Aspergillus penicillioides(JH06THJ) andEurotium halophilicum(FRR 2471)

(2016) Andrew Stevenson et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Concomitant osmotic and chaotropicity-induced stresses in Aspergillus wentii: compatible solutes determine the biotic window

(2015) Flávia de Lima Alves et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

Chaotropicity: a key factor in product tolerance of biofuel-producing microorganisms

(2015) Jonathan A Cray et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Constraints on a potential aerial biosphere on Venus: I. Cosmic rays

(2015) Lewis R. Dartnell et al.   ICARUS

Vertical profiles of H2O, H2SO4, and sulfuric acid concentration at 45–75km on Venus

(2015) Vladimir A. Krasnopolsky   ICARUS

Aerobically respiring prokaryotic strains exhibit a broader temperature–pH–salinity space for cell division than anaerobically respiring and fermentative strains

(2015) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Water structure and chaotropicity: their uses, abuses and biological implications

(2015) Philip Ball et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Extraordinary solute-stress tolerance contributes to the environmental tenacity of mycobacteria

(2015) Ricardo Santos et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

A New Analysis of Mars “Special Regions”: Findings of the Second MEPAG Special Regions Science Analysis Group (SR-SAG2)

(2014) John D. Rummel et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Is there a common water-activity limit for the three domains of life?

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ISME Journal

Hydrogen Bonding in the Sulfuric Acid–Methanol–Water System: A Matrix Isolation and Computational Study

(2014) Mark Rozenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Water and temperature relations of soil Actinobacteria

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Spatially resolved measurements of H2O, HCl, CO, OCS, SO2, cloud opacity, and acid concentration in the Venus near-infrared spectral windows

(2014) Giada Arney et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Bimodal distribution of sulfuric acid aerosols in the upper haze of Venus

(2013) Peter Gao et al.   ICARUS

Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications

(2013) N. DeLeon-Rodriguez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sulfur chemistry in the middle atmosphere of Venus

(2011) Xi Zhang et al.   ICARUS

A simulation tool for aerosol formation during sulphuric acid absorption in a gas cleaning process

(2010) A. Wix et al.   JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE

Solutes determine the temperature windows for microbial survival and growth

(2010) Jason P. Chin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Limits of life in hostile environments: no barriers to biosphere function?

(2009) Jim P. Williams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY