Dark life

The project explores the idea that life as we know it is not the only form of life here on Earth. At the very edge of where known life can exist, just before organic synthesis breaks down, there could be a niche where rudimentary Darwinian evolution could occur. The project aims to investigate this niche for evidence of alternative life forms that may have evaded detection due to their small size. This will be accomplished by utilizing the latest tools to characterize samples from extreme environments on the nanometer scale.