Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

19/08/2021 23 min
Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

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New work suggests that the radiolytic splitting of water supports giant subsurface ecosystems of life on Earth — and could do it elsewhere, too. The post Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds first appeared on Quanta Magazine