Image: NASA
The intertubes were abuzz with the big news from NASA yesterday: Researchers announced they discovered a new kind of life that rearranges all our assumptions about life as we know it (but first they had to apologize that no, it wasn't an alien). This life form, a microbe that substitutes phosphate (heretofore a building block of all life on earth) with toxic arsenic, is truly an amazing discovery. Even more amazing is that the horizon-expanding discovery could be a huge boon to both clean energy and toxic waste cleanup -- it could change both sectors in some pretty revolutionary ways.
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