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Glass-Eating Microbes

Posted by Hemos on from the don't-let-them-in-notre-dame dept.

JoeyPea writes "Researchers have found that volcanic glass (super-cooled lava) in the ocean's upper crust is eaten by microbes. The researchers found tiny tubular tunnels bored through the rock. The breakdown of volcanic rock was thought to be a chemical/physical process, but now it obviously has a biological component."

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  1. There's got to be a good application by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those beer bottles with the twist off caps that don't twist off. Many injured hands could be avoided if the beer would just eat it's own way out.

  2. It doesn't hurt me. by L3WKW4RM · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me.

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