The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 participants ...

NIH-supported researchers have developed a new method using a protein from tardigrades to help protect healthy tissue during ...

Scientists are just starting to understand the tardigrade. It can survive boiling water, outer space, and extreme radiation. Following is a transcript of the video. This funny looking little guy ...

Tardigrades are well-known for being nearly indestructible. Now, scientists have reanalyzed ancient, amber-encased fossils, revealing when the super-tough critters may have first got the ability ...

Mouse cells tweaked to produce the tardigrade protein incurred less DNA damage than unaltered cells — hinting at a new tool for cancer patient care.

Tardigrades, or water bears, are microscopic animals with incredible survival skills—they can withstand extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space. They can also tolerate high doses of radiation.

It all has to do with tardigrades. A team of researchers from University of Iowa Health Care, MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has developed an innovative method to protect healthy tissue ...

Guided by their teachers, nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren, ages 7 to 16, helped scientists from the Natural History Museum of Denmark catalog tiny, water-dwelling animals known as tardigrades ...

FILE - A model tardigrade is seen in a display case at The Grant Museum on February 20, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Still, this is an early-stage study. The findings ...