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Microbes survive 30,000 years inside a salt... →
THRIFTY microbes entombed in a salt crystal have survived for 30,000 years by feeding off the remains of algae that were trapped along with them. This is the most convincing example to date of long-term survival. Brian Schubert, a microbiologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and colleagues studied salt crystals in a sediment core taken from Death Valley in California. The crystals...
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How Many People Are In Space Right Now? →
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A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...
– Media: A world of hits | The Economist (via kvasir)