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4 Jul 2009
Top Story: Tardigrades: The World's Toughest Critters
By Rhiannon Buck
The humble water bear has been the subject of some pretty nasty experiments lately. Scientists have boiled them in pure alcohol, exposed them to pressures six times greater then on the deepest ocean floor, and even frozen them to near absolute...
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> Space Seeds Return to Earth
> Tall Tales: Giant Squid
The humble water bear has been the subject of some pretty nasty experiments lately. Scientists have boiled them in pure alcohol, exposed them to pressures six times greater then on the deepest ocean floor, and even frozen them to near absolute...
> Read this article
> Jellyplants on Mars
> Moon Trees
> Space Seeds Return to Earth
> Tall Tales: Giant Squid
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Patience Taught By Nature
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"O DREARY life," we cry, "O dreary life !"And still the generations of the birdsSing through our sighing, and the...
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Patience Taught By Nature
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"O DREARY life," we cry, "O dreary life !"And still the generations of the birdsSing through our sighing, and the...
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