NASA Science News for December 20, 2000

Certain types of bacteria on Earth are atomic engineers -- atom by atom they build tiny magnetic crystals to help themselves follow our planet's magnetic field. Now scientists have found such crystals in an unlikely place: a martian meteorite!

FULL STORY and GRAPHICS at:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast20dec_1.htm?list154233

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