Astrobiologist Maya D. Yanez: Could acetylene fermentation be an energy source for microbes on Titan?

Wunderdog by Øystein Runde

NASA JPL intern Maya D. Yanez has recently defended her Ph.D. on acetylenotrophy. This is the ability to extract energy from acetylene, and only a few species of bacteria (that we know of here on Earth) have it. They are...View more