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Science 20 October 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5235, p. 377
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5235.377
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Jocelyn Kaiser

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Washington, have found bacteria in an aquifer 1500 meters below ground that appear to be living off hydrogen generated by a reaction between basalt and ground water. If so, they would be the first organisms known to obtain their energy from a source completely independent of the sun.


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