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This episode explores new research which has created a strain of the bacteria E. coli, that eats carbon dioxide for energy rather than organic compounds like sugars and fats. 

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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read the ‘Wings’ by Miroslav Holub here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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