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September 29, 2011 01:34 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cvbraqNbTlA/after-arsenic-life-great-profile-of-felisa-wolfe-simon.html
After (arsenic) life: Great profile of Felisa Wolfe-Simon
In early 2011, Felisa Wolfe-Simon published a scientific paper purporting to show evidence that bacteria from California's Mono Lake could, if pressed, live without the essential element phosphorous, and use arsenic, instead. The story was wildly misconstrued in the press. (No, nobody ever found alien life happening naturally in Lake Mono.) And the evidence and [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cvbraqNbTlA/after-arsenic-life-great-profile-of-felisa-wolfe-simon.html
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