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Super-bacteria make their own rocket fuel

Bacteria known as anammox germs can transform ammonia into into hydrazine, a type of rocket fuel.

For the first time since this phenomenon was discovered in the germ, the molecular structure that enables the fuel-making process has been discovered.

Read more at Nature

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