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<p>While on a sampling trip in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, researchers stopped to sample a rather boring stream on their hike to Boiling Springs Lake. But when they incubated that water sample back in the lab, they discovered an amoeba that could still move and divide at 145 F, <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/fire-amoebas-lava-exoplanet-atmosphere/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">a new record</a> for a eukaryotic cell. Microbiologist Angela Oliverio joins Host Flora Lichtman to describe the “fire amoeba,” <i>Incendiamoeba cascadensis</i>.</p><p>Plus, planetary scientist Johanna Teske takes us to exoplanet TOI-561b, a far-off <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/fire-amoebas-lava-exoplanet-atmosphere/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">“wet lava ball”</a> which was recently observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Researchers believe that the planet has the stronges...