Life Slow Enough to Live on Radioactivity

ASTROBIOLOGY SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2006WASHINGTON, D.C.-- At the Astrobiology Science Conference 2006, held here from 26 to 30 March, researchers announced a new measurement that suggests that a substantial number of subsurface microbes might be surviving solely by consuming a product of feeble radioactive decay lingering from before Earth's formation. ([Read more][1].) [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5771/179a