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Inside rooms designed to be among the most sterile places on Earth, scientists have just cataloged 26 forms of life that no one had ever seen before. The discovery inside NASA spacecraft facilities ...

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Life, as they say, finds a way — even in the most sterile places on Earth. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

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University of Houston microbiologists discovered that a rare bacterium in NASA clean rooms can “play dead” to survive extreme sterilization conditions. A rare microorganism found in an unexpected ...