MessageToEagle.com - It's a strange and very complicated creature - bacteria or rather super bacteria! It can live in super
extreme conditions like drought, radiation, heat and overcrowding.
Some bacteria have evolved several mechanisms to tolerate presence of heavy metals and detoxify them. They are resistant to
and grow on metals, using them for energy and groth and respiration.
A few years ago, environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that
the Rancho La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the
bacteria to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt, with no water and little or no oxygen.
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A bioreactor uses a gold-loving bacteria to turn liquid gold into useable, 24-karat gold. Photo by G.L. Kohuth.
Now, yet another tough super bacteria organisms have been discovered by Michigan State University researchers.
This time, it's the metal-tolerant bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans that can withstand incredible amounts of toxicity
in the process of creating 24-karat gold.
A metal-tolerant Cupriavidus metallidurans can grow on massive and toxic gold chloride – or liquid gold, a toxic chemical
compound found in nature.
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Gold flecks produced by the art-science experiment “The Great Work of the Metal Lover,” by Adam Brown,
MSU associate professor of electronic art and intermedia. Photo by G.L. Kohuth
In an art-science experiment called “The Great Work of the Metal Lover,” MSU researchers found the bacterium
known as Cupriavidus metallidurans was able to turn toxic gold chloride (or “liquid gold”) into solid 24-karat
gold. In fact, the bacteria’s ability proved to be at least 25 times stronger than previously reported:
over a week, the bacteria produced a gold nugget from the toxic liquid.
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Gold produced from the bioreactor identifies gold deposits in this digital image produced by Adam Brown,
MSU associate professor of electronic art and intermedia. Photo by G.L. Kohuth.
The process of such gold production is possible but on a larger scale, the financial burden of it is
significantly greater than the benefit.
Additionally, the researchers’ success in creating gold raises questions about greed, economy and environmental
impact, focusing on the ethics related to science and the engineering of nature.
“Art has the ability to probe and question the impact of science in the world, and ‘The Great Work of the
Metal Lover’ speaks directly to the scientific preoccupation while trying to shape and bend biology to our
will within the postbiological age,” Brown said.
Fascinating Gigantic Creatures Today Totally Extinct 13,000 Years Ago Coexisted With Early Americans
The Ice Age world was, geologically, just a moment ago. Fascinating but today extinct giant animals, like mammoths,
mastodons and giant ground sloths, coexisted with early Americans in those days....
For millions of years, these animals survived, living in temperate climates and on the wind-swept lands of the frozen north – great
beasts weighing as much as eight tons and bearing tusks up to 16 feet long.
Monster Crocodile That Consumed At Least A Few of Our Ancestors
A gigantic crocodile, more than 27 feet in length, which was large enough to swallow humans,
once co-existed with our ancestors in East Africa, say researchers.
Today it is an extinct species from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin in Kenya.
Higher Life-Form Discovered Beneath The Antarctic Ice
Shocks Scientists
While drilling into the thick ice of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, scientists came across something that came as a chock.
About 600 feet beneath the ice, where no-one thought it was possible for any kind of higher life-forms to exist, something was living there...
Unusual Flatworm With 60 Eyes - First Ever Discovered!
Two eyes can be enough to sometimes give you the feeling you are being watched, but how would you feel if 60 eyes starred at you?
An entirely new kind of species has been discovered in grassland near Cambridge, UK.
A Paradise Where The Gods Once Lived
This wonder of nature, about 200 million years old, is half a kilometer long and got its name from the
verdant reeds growing outside it, which are used to make flutes.
It has been a famous tourist attraction for over 1200 years.
The temperature inside this water-eroded cave is about 20°C.
Labirynth Of The Ice Giants - Almost Not Of This World!
Let us enter a magical, underground realm, with long history stretching back over 50 to 100 million years...
Certainly, there are over one million caves on our planet but only very few of them are ice caves.
Magnificent underground labyrinth...
MessageToEagle.com - It's a strange and very complicated creature - bacteria or rather super bacteria! It can live in super
extreme conditions like drought, radiation, heat and overcrowding.
Earth is an amazing planet and our nature is full of wonders. We have previously written about
The Ice Age world was, geologically, just a moment ago. Fascinating but today extinct giant animals, like mammoths,
mastodons and giant ground sloths, coexisted with early Americans in those days....
For millions of years, these animals survived, living in temperate climates and on the wind-swept lands of the frozen north – great
beasts weighing as much as eight tons and bearing tusks up to 16 feet long.
A gigantic crocodile, more than 27 feet in length, which was large enough to swallow humans,
once co-existed with our ancestors in East Africa, say researchers.
Today it is an extinct species from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Turkana Basin in Kenya.
While drilling into the thick ice of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, scientists came across something that came as a chock.
About 600 feet beneath the ice, where no-one thought it was possible for any kind of higher life-forms to exist, something was living there...
Two eyes can be enough to sometimes give you the feeling you are being watched, but how would you feel if 60 eyes starred at you?
A huge deposit of water has been discovered underground in northern Namibia and it can supply people with water for 400 years!
Scientists believe the water is over 10,000 years old but is purer and cleaner than the majority of other water sources.
This wonder of nature, about 200 million years old, is half a kilometer long and got its name from the
verdant reeds growing outside it, which are used to make flutes.
It has been a famous tourist attraction for over 1200 years.
The temperature inside this water-eroded cave is about 20°C.
This African remarkable fruit has its own extraordinary colour but does not use pigment to create it.
Glittering blue colour remains intense even years after plant's death.
The ‘brightest’ thing in nature...
Let us enter a magical, underground realm, with long history stretching back over 50 to 100 million years...
Certainly, there are over one million caves on our planet but only very few of them are ice caves.
Magnificent underground labyrinth...
