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7 Nov 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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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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