Travelers should explore the Atacama Desert for its unique landscapes, stargazing opportunities and distinct wildlife.

There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, ...

The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

A novel technique separates living (iDNA) and dead (eDNA) microbial DNA, enabling precise analysis of microbial life in the ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is a wonder in itself. It is the only true desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts, making it the driest non-polar desert in the world and the second ...

Researchers describe a new way to separate extracellular from intracellular genetic material, allowing better insights into ...

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

After spending three months in one of the driest places in the world, writer Mark Johanson is eager to return.

The dry, desolate landscape of the Atacama Desert has been used by American space agency Nasa to replicate conditions on Mars Sign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.