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Science 14 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5771, p. 179
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5771.179a
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ASTROBIOLOGY SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2006:
Life Slow Enough to Live on Radioactivity

Richard A. Kerr

WASHINGTON, D.C.--At the Astrobiology Science Conference 2006, held here from 26 to 30 March, researchers announced a new measurement that suggests that a substantial number of subsurface microbes might be surviving solely by consuming a product of feeble radioactive decay lingering from before Earth's formation. (Read more.)

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