Arsenic-Friendly Microbe Now Seems Unlikely

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 8, 2012 @05:58PM from the but-it-sure-sounded-cool-at-the-time dept.

The Associated Press (as carried by the Washington Post) reports that the controversial report of arsenic-based life-forms in a California lake (much hyped by NASA) look suddenly less controversial, but in a way that will disappoint those who hoped that such an unexpected thing had actually been found on earth. Instead, the journal Science "released two papers that rip apart the original research. They 'clearly show' that the bacteria can't use arsenic as the researchers claimed, said an accompanying statement from the journal." USA Today's version of the story points out that the claim, and subsequent considered rejection of that claim as unsupportable, "looks like a case study in how science corrects its mistakes."

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Re:A sad day for hot scientists by phantomfive · 2012-07-08 18:41 · Score: 4, Informative

There's her picture, if anyone cares. You shouldn't.

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Re:Why aren't we redistributing Bill Gate's Money? by SlashV · 2012-07-09 00:19 · Score: 4, Informative

Right now, all we have the shuttle
No, you don't