Microbe converts light to energy - by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

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Microbe converts light to energy - by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

Microbe converts light to energy
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

Associated Press

July 26, 2007 at 2:10 PM EDT

WASHINGTON � "The wonderland known as Yellowstone National Park has yielded a new marvel � an unusual bacterium that converts light to energy.

The discovery was made in a hot spring at the park where colorful mats of microbes drift in the warmth.

�This thing was just bizarre,� David Ward, a professor of microbial studies at Montana State University, said of the bacterium.

Plants use photosynthesis to turn light into energy, of course, and so do some other bacteria.

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1. Amazing find ... thanks for posting it n/t

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