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Microbes Living at -13 Degrees C in Lake Vida
December 2, 2012 | National Science Foundation

“Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) describe in a new publication a viable community of bacteria that ekes out a living in a dark, salty and subfreezing environment beneath nearly 20 meters of ice in one of Antarctica’s most isolated lakes.”


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