7 Mar 2011

Science Story - Extremophile Microbes in Antarctica

From Afternoons, 3:33 pm on 7 March 2011

From Antarctica - Alison Ballance checks out some gritty little creatures (organism) that thrive in conditions too extreme for most other living things. Hitching a helicopter ride up to Mt Erebus, Alison finds out where these mighty extremophile microbes hang out, and how they might help her wash her clothes in the future.

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