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In a new study, first author Palash Kumawat from the University of Bremen's Geosciences Department and his team investigated how microbes manage to survive in one of the planet's harshest underwater environments. They analyzed lipid biomarkers, specialized fat molecules that reveal biological activity, to uncover the organisms' survival strategies. The site's pH of 12 makes...