Microbe converts light to energy
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press
July 26, 2007 at 2:10 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — "The wonderland known as Yellowstone National Park has yielded a new marvel – an unusual bacterium that converts light to energy.
The discovery was made in a hot spring at the park where colorful mats of microbes drift in the warmth.
“This thing was just bizarre,” David Ward, a professor of microbial studies at Montana State University, said of the bacterium.
Plants use photosynthesis to turn light into energy, of course, and so do some other bacteria.
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