URI Researchers: Microbes Deep Beneath Seafloor Survive on Byproducts of Radioactive Process
February 27, 2021
February 27, 2021
NARRAGANSETT, Rhode Island, Feb. 27 (TNSJou) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:
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 that the creation of these chemicals is amplifie . . .
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 that the creation of these chemicals is amplifie . . .