Cold-loving microbes from Antarctica produce an “uncharacteristically powerful” antifreeze, using it like a grappling hook to grab onto ice rather than stop it from forming. This Atlantic article describes how Faculty scientists Maya Bar Dolev and Ido Braslavsky collaborated with Peter Davies  of Queens University to see just how they do it. "Why would a bacterium evolve to do this at all? Why adhere to a surface that, as Braslavsky notes, “can just melt and disappear?”

The Counterintuitive Way That Microbes Survive in Antarctica and what it could mean for the search for life on other world