The Extremeophile Awards: honoring Earth's hardest-living bacteria

The Lab Rat blog is handing out awards to the hardest-living bacteria on Earth. My favorite winner: Photobacterium profundum, which can live happy and reasonably healthy at a ridiculously wide range of pressures—from 14.5 psi (the standard pressure of our atmosphere), all the way up to 10,152 psi.