Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

May 16, 2007

X-treme Microbes

This graphics-heavy Web site, created last month by the National Science Foundation, tells of microbes that survive and even thrive in inhospitable environments, including bone-dry deserts, boiling acid, and radioactive rock.

Go to: www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/microbes

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