Newfound bacterium casts life in a new light
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 22:30
in Astronomy & Space
A Mono Lake bacterium's ability to subsist on deadly arsenic has scientists wide-eyed and rethinking the basics.After days of rampant speculation that NASA was on the cusp of revealing it had detected extraterrestrial life, the reality was slightly more down-to-Earth.