Last year Dr Philippa Uwins discovered a group of organisms in limestone from off-shore Western Australia that are the smallest ever discovered. Since then, Dr Uwins has been doing some further investigations into the bacteria she named [more...]

This article is from microscopy-uk.org.uk

How it began…
Philippa Uwins and her colleagues at the University of Queensland, Australia, noticed strange structures growing on sandstone rock samples they had broken open for studying. The rock samples had been retrieved from 3 to 5 Kilometres below the ocean bed where atmospheric pressure is around 2000x normal, and [more...]