image: This is solidified oil at a spot with mining activity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 8 August, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Rainer U. Meckenstock at Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen in Neuherberg, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'Water droplets in oil are microhabitats for microbial life.' view more
Credit: Rainer Meckenstock