A Map of the World That Reveals Natural Disaster Hot Zones
Want to know where you should live if you are hoping to avoid the next catastrophic earthquake, flood, megavolcano, or storm? Consult our map of disaster hot zones of the world. Most of the disasters we’ve highlighted here are caused by nature, and only occasionally helped along by humans. Arguably some of the storms are…
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Annalee Newitz and Michael Ann Dobbs
Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars
It was already nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” for its ability to withstand radiation. Now it seems Deinococcus radiodurans could, in theory, survive dormant on Mars for over a million years. Lewis Dartnell at University College London and colleagues froze the bugs to -79 °C, the average temperature at Mars’s mid-latitudes. Then they zapped them with…
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Hazel Muir - New Scientist
