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Bacteria that eats metal accidentally discovered by scientists in the US – 7NEWS.com.au
Researchers made the bizarre discovery after performing a completely unrelated experiment.
Scientists have discovered a type of bacteria that eats and gets its calories from metal, after suspecting they exist for more than a hundred years but never proving it.
Microbiologists from the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech) accidentally discovered the bacteria after performing unrelated experiments using a chalk-like type of manganese, a commonly found chemical element.
Dr Jared Leadbetter, professor of environmental microbiology at Caltech in Pasadena, left a glass jar cove…
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