#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #extremophiles, aggregated by home.social.
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#Extremophiles that can digest #radiation ☢️ and toxicities are already used to clean up everything from oil spills to the fallout of radioactive sites.
This means we could #engineer microbes that are resistant to freezing ❄️ temperatures and high levels of radiation.
Given that #microbes 🦠 helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic #biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar process for #Mars 🔴 https://theconversation.com/how-to-engineer-microbes-to-enable-us-to-live-on-mars-253456
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/797108/ Scientists Placed Microscopic Animals in Simulated Martian Soil and Something Unexpected Happened #Astrobiology #Environment #extremophiles #MarsRegolith #MartianSoil #PennState #regolith #Science #Tardigrades #UK #UnitedKingdom #WaterBears
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Scientists Placed Microscopic Animals in Simulated Martian Soil and Something Unexpected Happened
Penn State University scientists studying the potential habitability of Mars exposed microscopic animals called tardigrades to a batch…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Astrobiology #environment #extremophiles #marsregolith #Martiansoil #PennState #regolith #Science #Tardigrades #UK #UnitedKingdom #waterbears
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/451821/