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Arsenic Eating Bacteria!
Think all life survives on the same few elements? Think again. The Why Files takes a look at arsenic eating bacteria: http://whyfiles.org/2010/bathed-in-poison
A bill has been introduced in the Kansas legislature this week that would prohibit the promotion of sustainability.
Here is a link to the one-page bill:
Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth’s crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive.
Scientists have determined the temperature near the Earth’s center to be 6000 degrees Celsius, 1000 degrees hotter than in a previous experiment run 20 years ago.
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