Scientists in Australia have discovered an enzyme in bacteria that converts air into energy, an advance that opens the way for a new clean source of power. The finding, published in the journal Nature, shows that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. The researchers extracted the enzyme responsible for using atmospheric hydrogen from a bacterium called Mycobacterium smegmatis. They showed that this enzyme, called Huc, turns hydrogen gas into an electrical current.

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