Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Researchers Find Bacterial Communities Deep Beneath the Atacama <a href="https://eos.org/articles/researchers-find-bacterial-communities-deep-beneath-the-atacama" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eos.org/articles/researchers-f</span><span class="invisible">ind-bacterial-communities-deep-beneath-the-atacama</span></a></p><p>Persistent microbial communities in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/hyperarid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperarid</span></a> subsurface habitats of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Atacama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atacama</span></a> Desert: Insights from intracellular DNA analysis <a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/4/pgae123/7646996" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/3/4/pgae123/7646996</span></a></p><p>"they proposed that the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbes</span></a> rely on water generated by the mineralogical change from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/gypsum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gypsum</span></a> to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anhydrite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anhydrite</span></a>. This change indeed leaves some amount of water in the environment and this water could be used by the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>."</p>