Faced with an onslaught of new, drug-resistant superbugs, determined scientists are venturing into the depths of the Earth in search of rare and unusual bacteria that may form the basis of tomorrow’s antibiotics. …the true function of such metabolites in nature may be to act as a form of language between bacteria, enabling them to communicate […]
Life goes deeper
The Earth is not a solid mass of rock: its hot, dark, fractured subsurface is home to weird and wonderful life forms The living landscape all around us is just a thin veneer atop the vast, little-understood bulk of the Earth’s interior. A widespread misconception about the deep subsurface is that this realm consists of […]
