Washington: Lurking in the depths of a California lake, researchers found a bacteria that can thrive on arsenic, an explosive discovery that could expand the search for other life on Earth and beyond.
The Nasa-funded findings redefines what science considers the necessary elements for life, currently viewed as: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulfur.
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