NASA's "Mono Lake Discovery": What They Found Offers Hope for Life on Alien Worlds

An arsenic-eating bacterium offers hope for life living on alien worlds, NASA scientists suggested Thursday. Reported in the journal Science, by a team led by Felisa Wolfe-Simon of the NASA Astrobiology Institute in Menlo Park, Calif., who has been conducting reserach at Mono Lake California for years and led the experiment, the Halomonadaceae bacterium turned up in a survey of the salty and arsenic-rich Mono Lake... View Full Article