Researcher finds life flying high above
Monday, January 7, 2013 - 12:00
in Physics & Chemistry
For years, scientists have been tracking pollution that travels across the jet stream from Asia and measuring how much of it winds up in Northwest air. Now new work from University of Washington researchers shows it's not just specks of heavy metals or gases that make the long journey here from China or Russia. Some of the world's smallest life-forms, including bacteria and fungi, do as well.