One can never fathom the magnitude of wonder mother nature can bestow. We could always gauge the positive and the detrimental effects of nuclear energy, and the evolutionary or devastating forms that it can take, depending on how it is used. But, this article that I stumbled upon takes it to a different dimension.
The recent study conducted by a couple of major universities, show that extremeophile bacteria thats basically buried in rock about 2 miles beneath the earth's surface have a unique mechanism of living. They have a metabolism by which they utilize Uranium to break down water molecules and use it with pyrite to live.
Here is the complete article by Luke McKinney that would tickle our imagination.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/05/atomic-extremeo.html#more
