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Antarctic bacteria live on air and make their own water using hydrogen as fuel

Written by: Pok Man Leung, PhD candidate in Microbiology, Monash University

Ian Hogg, Author provided

Humans have only recently begun to think about using hydrogen as a source of energy, but bacteria in Antarctica have been doing it for a billion years.

We studied 451 different kinds of bacteria from frozen soils in East Antarctica and found most of them live by using hydrogen from the air as a fuel. Through genetic...

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