Abyss, Alliances Depths

Also in Student Competition

In the summer of 2013, the biggest French oceanographic ship, the ‘Pourquoi pas’ [‘Why not’] undertook an extremely important mission, which allowed the international team of 30 scientists on board to test their latest hypotheses: that bacteria play a vital role in the survival of underwater species in the deep ocean.

This co-operation between the species and the bacteria casts doubt on ideas about the origins of life held until now.

Selected at Pariscience 2014
See the showing : Monday 06th October 2014 from 18h00 to 19h45