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MEDIA: How Does Life Happen When There’s Barely Any Light?

‘Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature’. Professor Kevin Flynn, Plankton ecophysiology modeller at PML, has featured in Quanta Magazine in the article, ‘How Does Life Happen When There’s Barely Any Light?’.

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