Mineral-eating intraterrestrial bacteria may give clues on extraterrestrial life

A former gold mine in South Dakota is giving scientists clues as to how colonies of bacteria living in the continental deep subsurface and feeding out of minerals spread out and form biofilms, which are microbial coatings of the rock...

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