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Tag: Justine Sauvage

Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process

A scientist analyzes a sediment core in a lab.

GSO researchers find that microbes living in ancient sediment below the seafloor are sustained primarily by chemicals created by the natural irradiation of water molecules, with implications for the search for life on other worlds.

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Tagged as:Justine Sauvage microbes Steven D'Hondt subseafloor sediment

Researchers discover life in deep ocean sediments at or above water’s boiling point

Drilling Vessel Chikyu at sea on a calm day.

An international research team that included three scientists GSO has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location where they didn’t expect to find them.

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Tagged as:Arthur J. Spivack David C. Smith Justine Sauvage Kira Homola microbes microbiology

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