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Published online 14 December 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061211-16
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Deep sea yields record-breaking bug
Sub-seafloor microbes perform ancient biochemical trick in scalding heat.
A heat-busting bug has been found that can create usable nitrogen at the extreme temperature of 92 °C — breaking the old record by 28 °C.
The finding is more than a gee-whiz record breaker: it may also help to settle a long-running debate about how the ability to extract nitrogen from the air or seawater evolved, and perhaps help chemists to better mimic the process for industrial use.
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