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Margaret W. Bushee, [email protected]

In September 2007, while sun worshippers on Earth were warding off sunburn, tiny water-dwelling invertebrates called tardigrades – often referred to as “water bears” – were orbiting through space as solar UV radiation levels 1000 times those on Earth assaulted them. Their odyssey began with a question researchers had been asking for a while: Could these hardy organisms survive the radiation and vacuum conditions of open space and, if so, what could they teach us about maintaining human existence under extreme conditions? Results of the study, headed up by K. Ingemar Jönsson of Kristianstad...Read full article

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    Published: November 2008
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