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Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

16 May 2017

Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel between worlds

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Wiggling atom probes buddy molecule without disturbing it

10 May 2017

Physicists can observe complex molecules without disrupting them by linking them up to a charged atom, giving a new way to probe fundamental physics

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