microbes
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The US space agency announced last year that its Perseverance rover had found potential biosignatures, markings on rocks possibly made by ancient microbes.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Because microbes continuously take up, transform, and release nutrients, this form of phosphorus can offer insight into the biologically active portion of the soil phosphorus cycle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Genetic studies of living microbes belonging to groups considered closest to the ancestors of the first eukaryote can offer key insights into eukaryote ancestry.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
The gases then moved upward through the sediment and eventually reached microbes living near the seafloor that consumed methane.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Perhaps there is an exotic inorganic chemistry in the Martian soil that is able by itself, in the absence of Martian microbes, to oxidize foodstuffs.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
