Saturday, December 23, 2006
This is amazing!
The smallest form of life known to science just got smaller.When I first read this, I thought they were talking about the discovery of the origins of the modern Republican party. Where the scum was found would explain the Republican hostility to environmental laws.
Four million of a newly discovered microbe — assuming the discovery, reported yesterday in the journal Science, is confirmed — could fit into the period at the end of this sentence.
Scientists found the microbes living in a remarkably inhospitable environment, drainage water as caustic as battery acid from a mine in Northern California. The microbes, members of an ancient family of organisms known as archaea, formed a pink scum on green pools of hot mine water laden with toxic metals, including arsenic.
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