I don't know if I can bear to watch this.
Throughout the trailer, all I could think about was the creature's gastro-intestinal arrangement. It's got a mouth at both ends. All the heroes have to do is let it keep eating, and since it can't excrete, it'll eventually explode.
(via Deep Sea News)
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(Oops, this should have been published on Tuesday. I didn't click publish. Sorry!)
Over at her old blog, Karmen had a nice overview of Deinococcus radiodurans, a fascinating organism that's able to withstand many different extremes: genotoxic chemicals, oxidative damage
Hard on the heels of my semi-facetious prediction that bird flu would return to Germany because Germany had declared itself bird flu free,