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The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable

The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable
science8/20/2025

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push life’s limits of time and energy.

I had a couple of job offers for my postdoc, and one of them was with Bo Barker Jørgensen at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University in Denmark. He said, “You have free rein. I’m not going to dictate your project or what you do. The only ... [1945 chars]