ScienceDaily: Up to 4 percent of the methane on Earth comes from the ocean's oxygen-rich waters, but scientists have been unable to identify the source of this potent greenhouse gas. Now researchers report that they have found the culprit: a bit of "weird chemistry" practiced by the most abundant microbes on the planet. The findings appear in the journal Science. The researchers who made the discovery did not set out to explain ocean geochemistry. They were searching for new antibiotics. Their research,...
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