Scientists have identified tiny nanoorganisms, which are virtually
impossible to see beneath the microscope, in a Californian mine. The
discovery may have important implications in the search for life on
other planets.
Quote: "For 11 years, Jill Banfield at the University of California,
Berkeley, has collected and studied the microbes that slime the
floors of mines and convert iron to acid, a common source of stream
pollution around the world. Imagine her surprise, then, when research
scientist Brett Baker discovered three new microbes living amidst the
bacteria she thought she knew well. All three were so small - the
size of large viruses - as to be virtually invisible under a
microscope, and belonged to a totally new phylum of Archaea,
microorganisms that have been around for billions of years."
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