Search for alien life about to step up a gear

Search for alien life about to step up a gear, Ottawa Citizen – Online, Windsor Star, Oct. 25, 2012. NEW THEORY: Other sources of heat have been identified and scientists have come up with radically new ideas about the forms life could take after studying organisms that live in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Another team from North Carolina State University 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.