The first article from the collaboration of researchers involved in the heavy water bacteria experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC) has recently been published.
This publication presents the first identification of bacterial communities capable of evolving in an environment considered hostile for most organisms.
At the LSC, scientists are studying how the absence of cosmic radiation affects the viability of these bacteria, simulating conditions that could exist beneath the surface of Mars, where life would be protected from radiation in the subsurface.
