{"id":10313,"date":"2016-06-21T14:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=10313"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:06:57","slug":"new-life-found-that-lives-off-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/new-life-found-that-lives-off-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientists Kenneth Nealson, Alfred Spormann and Annette Rowe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientists have figured out how microbes can suck energy from rocks. Such life-forms might be more widespread than anyone anticipated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last year, biophysicist Moh El-Naggar and his graduate student Yamini Jangir plunged beneath South Dakota\u2019s Black Hills into an old gold mine that is now more famous as a home to a dark matter detector. Unlike most scientists who make pilgrimages to the Black Hills these days, El-Naggar and Jangir weren\u2019t there to hunt for subatomic particles. They came in search of life.<\/p>\n<p>In the darkness found a mile underground, the pair traversed the mine\u2019s network of passages in search of a rusty metal pipe. They siphoned some of the pipe\u2019s ancient water, directed it into a vessel, and inserted a variety of electrodes. They hoped the current would lure their prey, a little-studied microbe that can live off pure electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI scientists Kenneth Nealson, Alfred Spormann and Annette Rowe. Excerpt: Scientists have figured out how microbes can suck energy from rocks. Such life-forms might be more widespread than anyone anticipated. Last year, biophysicist Moh El-Naggar and his graduate student Yamini Jangir plunged beneath South Dakota\u2019s Black Hills into an old gold mine that is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}