{"id":142375,"date":"2022-07-17T04:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-uncover-lifes-power-generators-in-the-earths-oldest-groundwaters"},"modified":"2022-07-17T04:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:31:04","slug":"researchers-uncover-lifes-power-generators-in-the-earths-oldest-groundwaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-uncover-lifes-power-generators-in-the-earths-oldest-groundwaters","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover life\u2019s power generators in the Earth\u2019s oldest groundwaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-lifes-power-generators-in-the-earths-oldest-groundwaters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold-and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth\u2019s surface and how it may thrive on other planets.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published earlier this week in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we have insight into how energy stored deep in the Earth\u2019s subsurface can be released and distributed more broadly through its crust over time,\u201d says Oliver Warr, research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto and lead author of the study. \u201cThink of it as a Pandora\u2019s Box of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/helium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">helium<\/a>-and-hydrogen-producing power, one that we can learn how to harness for the benefit of the deep biosphere on a global scale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold-and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth\u2019s surface and how it may thrive on other planets. The findings were published earlier this week in the journal Nature Communications. \u201cFor the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}