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New research on microbial lifeforms living in nearly barren volcanic landscapes in Iceland may help scientists understand how best to search for life on other planets.“What [FELDSPAR researchers] have been working on is trying to figure out how many samples we need to get in order to probabilistically sample that one region that has that biological hotspot,” said Amanda Stockton, a biochemist at Georgia Institute of Technology and co-principal investigator of the FELDSPAR project.
