Chinese researchers have identified the mechanisms that grant tardigrades their exceptional resistance to radiation, offering insights that could one day enhance human resilience to similar ...

缓步动物（Tardigrade），是一种八足微型生物，通常体长不足1毫米，俗称“水熊虫”，它们因对极端环境的耐受性而闻名，包括超高剂量辐射，是地球上最耐辐射的动物。 目前，科学家们已经描述了大约1500水熊虫，它们可以承受高达3000至5000Gy的伽马射线剂量 ...

Additionally, researchers say that reading is so easy a brain can do it, everything we know about tardigrades may be wrong, and the universe could be a lot simpler than Leonard Susskind thinks.

They found it had 14,701 genes, of which approximately 30% were unique to tardigrades. They then turned their attention to the effects of bombarding the creature's DNA with gamma rays—from low ...

Electron microscope image of a tardigrade. Image credit: S. Tanaka / H. Sagara / T. Kunieda. In the moss-covered slopes of China’s Funiu Mountain, scientists have discovered a new species of ...

They found several different effects. First, tardigrades may have borrowed a gene from bacteria that lets them produce betalains, a kind of pigment that’s capable of scavenging free radicals (a ...

Gregory Paulson/Getty Images Tardigrades, tiny, eight-legged creatures that look like alien bears, are tougher than any beast on Earth. These little guys can withstand massive amounts of radiation ...

A newly described species of tardigrade is giving scientists insights into what makes these tiny eight-legged creatures so resistant to radiation. Tardigrades, also known as water bears ...

Apart from their disconcerting cuteness, tardigrades are famed for the fact that they’re nigh on indestructible. These tiny creatures are extremophiles, adapted for life in environments that ...

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