A Single-species Ecosystem Deep in the Earth
Researchers have discovered a completely isolated rod-shaped bacterium, Desulforudis audaxviator, almost three kilometers down in the Earth’s crust in a gold mine in South Africa. Living on the products of radioactive decay in total darkness and 60-degree-Celsius heat, D. audaxviator constitutes the first known single-species ecosystem. More>
Something New in the Universe
Humans have been star-gazing for thousands of years but the surprises keep coming. Berkeley Lab astrophysicists observed a mysterious object that grew increasingly bright for about 100 days then faded away to nothing over the next 100 days. Astronomers have never reported anything like it before and still don’t know what it was. More>
Last updated: 10/10/2008
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