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Ripley's Believe it or Not



	Mine-Dwelling Microbe Included in Ripley's List A paper in Science, whose co-authors include Berkeley Lab earth scientists Terry Hazen, Gary Andersen, Eoin Brodie and Todd DeSantis, provided a �strange-but-true� fact for a recent item in Ripley�s Believe It or Not. In their paper, the researchers and their collaborators describe a community of bacteria from the species known as Firmicutes that lives in a South African mine 2.8 kilometers below the earth�s surface and uses radioactive uranium to convert water molecules to useable energy. The discovery expanded the realm of Earth's biosphere, the three-dimensional shell that encompasses all planetary life.

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	Authors: Chivian, Dylan Onstott, T.C.
	Keywords: Comparative Genomics, Environmental Genomics, Extremophiles, Field Studies, Stress Response

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