Good news on Merdeka day. In the UK, Scientists have recently discovered a microbe, a type of cyanobacteria that eats carbon dioxide (CO2) “astonishingly quickly”. It is found off the coast of a volcanic island near Sicily island and the volcano is surrounded by underwater hydrothermal vents, which are rich sources of CO2. These vents are located in shallow water, which means they are exposed to sunlight. All this has created the perfect environment for the evolution of microbes that use CO2 as a food source.
The Cyanobacteria
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The microbes found here in September 2022 are “hyper-efficient at consuming CO2 through photosynthesis, says Braden Tierney, a data scientist focusing on microbiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Harvard Medical School.
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