A body of water surrounded by craggy rocks. The “arsenic life” microbe came from Mono Lake, a highly alkaline, arsenic-rich body of water in California. Credit: Al Ungar/Shutterstock In the retraction ...
Back in 2010, in a livestreamed press-conference, researchers from NASA Astrobiology Institute claimed to have discovered something that “will fundamentally change how we define life, and therefore ...
In December 2010, a study led by a NASA astrobiology fellow claimed to have found an alien-like microbe in a salty, alkaline lake in California. This extraordinary bacterium could reportedly thrive ...