Where there is water, there is life… even when the water is 13 degrees below zero Celsius and six times saltier than the ocean. A report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes an ancient community of bacteria in the salty, pitch dark and subfreezing environment beneath nearly 20 meters of ice […]
Colony of Microbes Thriving in Dark, Frozen Antarctic Lake
Posted November 26th, 2012 at 5:30 pm (UTC-5)
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