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URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process – EurekAlert
Research conducted by scientists at the University of Rhode Island published today in Nature Communications found that microbes living in ancient sediment below…
IMAGE: Justine Sauvage measures dissolved oxygen in sediment cores collected in the North Atlantic.
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Credit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – February 26, 2021 – A team of researchers from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and their collaborators have revealed that the abundant microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules.
The team discovered…
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