Microorganisms in Parched Regions Extract Needed Water From Colonized Rocks

ENN
May 5, 2020, 4:40 pm160 pts
In Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the very rocks they colonize.

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