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Strange Bacteria That Survive Only on Air May Be More Prevalent Than We Realised – ScienceAlert
While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they really are so much more than that. They help us digest things, feed trees nitrogen, play a huge role in cycling Earth’s nutrients, and survive staggering extremes. Recently, we discovered some
While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they really are so much more than that. They help us digest things, feed trees nitrogen, play a huge role in cycling Earth’s nutrients, and survive staggering extremes. Recently, we discovered some of these incredibly tough and tiny packages of life can even live off air alone.
A few years back, scientists discovered bacteria in Antarctic soils that not only breathe air, but eat it too. Now, a new study shows these microbes could be present e…
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