About this episode

This episode discusses a unique microbe in Yellowstone that can breathe both oxygen and sulfur simultaneously.

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time. The story The Cells That Breathe Two Ways first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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