Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them

Curiosity of scientists is stronger than fear. Looking for discoveries, they climb down into toxic side gutters, boiling lakes or gloomy caves deep underground where scorching magma is bursting from rock clefts. And quite often their fearlessness is rewarded — scientists find microorganisms with fantastic abilities which can be used to improve life on Earth. This comic strip is a hit parade of similar discoveries. One of them has been recently made by biologists from the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of JINR at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory (INR of RAS) located at a depth of more than two kilometers under the Andyrchi mountain in Kabardino-Balkaria.