Word: aquaticus
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...idea that America's space agency would one day focus on extreme microbes would have seemed utterly farfetched in the late 1960s, when researchers discovered a microbe known as Thermus aquaticus in near boiling springs in Yellowstone National Park. At the time, the bizarre creature seemed little more than a biological oddity...
...hugely profitable. Extremophiles survive by manufacturing all sorts of novel molecules. Some digest harsh chemicals; some protect DNA against destruction by radiation; some stave off searing heat or freezing cold. Entrepreneurs are racing to turn these molecules into products, just as was done in the 1980s with Thermus aquaticus, the Yellowstone bug exploited in the PCR technique widely used today to analyze...
...permits men to stay under water for considerable periods, but it involves a lot of expensive and bothersome apparatus. A better system, says Cousteau, would be to provide man with artificial "gills" through which his blood could flow and pick up oxygen. Even better would be a true Homo aquaticus, a fishman able to get his oxygen directly from the water as the fish...
...upper floors of the IAB were opened at about the same time compulsory physical exercise was to begin for the freshmen. The new pool, the gift of one Alumnus Aquaticus, drew over 350 people a day to its waters. At Dunster House, it was reported, the students daily consumed the production of fifty cows and one hundred hens...
...dawned, Mallinckrodt Laboratory and New Lecture Hall were approaching completion. An anonymous gift of $100,000 from an "alumnus aquaticus" for a swimming pool started the administration thinking about an I.A.B. Maurice Ravel conducted at Sanders, Professor Charles T. Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, retired, and the Hasty Pudding ambitiously formulated plans for a nation-wide tour of its latest opus: "Not Now--Later...