alt Hacker NewsSpore forming bacterium are notoriously resistant to most ways of killing them. There's even a species that can resist radiation amounts that are 1000x the dose needed to kill a human.
Spore forming bacterium are notoriously resistant to most ways of killing them. There's even a species that can resist radiation amounts that are 1000x the dose needed to kill a human.
> Clues for future search of extremophile microbial life on Mars
That paragraph is pretty extraordinary with what is being claimed.
Crazy to think that anything could survive 25 kGy.