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An international team of researchers has found extremely small habitats that increase the potential for life on other planets while offering a way to clean up oil spills on our own. Looking at samples from the worlds largest natural asphalt lake, they found active microbes in droplets as small as a microliter, which is about 1/50th of a drop of water. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers report they also found the microbes were actively degrading oil in the asphalt, suggesting a similar phenomenon could be used to clean up oil spills. sciencemag.org/content/345/6197/673 phys.org/news/2014-08-microhabitats-oil-potential-extraterrestrial-life.html
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 20:47:50 +0000

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