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Search for alien life about to step up a gear

Search for alien life about to step up a gear, Reuters India, Oct. 18, 2012. NEW THEORY: The search for alien life has long been framed by the dogma of a ‘goldilocks zone’ around faraway suns that is just the right temperature. NC State researchers recently published research on a single-celled organism that lives in a hot spring near Mount Vesuvius in Italy and is able to eat uranium and draw energy from it.