While microbial life had been previously documented down to depths of 2.6 ft in the Atacama Desert, this newfound biosphere ...
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest hot desert in the world. Higher life forms are almost entirely absent, but the hyper-arid soil, rich in salts and sulfates, does harbor bacteria ...
Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of microbial life in the region to date. A rich microbial ...
As they say, life finds a way. Microbial life has been discovered existing 13 feet beneath the surface of Earth’s most hostile desert, the Atacama in northern Chile. It is known as the ...
An abundance of microbial life has been discovered in Chile's Atacama Desert, up to 4 meters (13 feet) below the surface of one of the driest and most inhospitable places on the planet. The Atacama is ...
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A rich microbial "biosphere" lies buried 13 feet (4 meters) beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, new research has found. The hidden world of bacteria is one of the deepest found ...
Sascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from ...