Microbes Behave Strangely—& Potentially Dangerously—In Space

Since the 1960s, bacteria have been hopping a ride into space on space vehicles and astronauts, and have been cultivated within experiments on space shuttles and the International Space Station (ISS). The extreme growing conditions and the low gravity environment on the Earth-orbiting vehicles offers a stable research platform for looking at bacteria in a different light. Why are these high flying studies so important? Inside and out, we are vastly outnumbered by the microbes with which we share this planet. Space-traveling microbes offer robust evidence of the survival of bacteria in extreme... more

from WonderHowTo http://ift.tt/2jLtHqS
via IFTTT