Researchers uncover life's power generators in the Earth's oldest groundwaters
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 06, 2022
An international team of researchers have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth's surface and how it may thrive on other planets. "For the first time, we have insight into how energy stored deep in the Earth's subsurface can be released and distributed mo