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Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space, temperatures near absolute zero, and radiation doses lethal to humans, but a Penn State-led team found that the MGS-1 Mars regolith simulant killed the tested H. exemplaris freshwater specimens within two days, while a terrestrial sand control stayed active
When Howard Carter's team opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the inventory included alabaster jars of dark residue that legend turned into still-edible honey, sealed around 1323 BCE and never actually identified by any chemist who tested it — a Yale team now suspects opium
In November 1957, Soviet sources told the world that the dog Laika had survived several days aboard Sputnik 2, but at a 2002 space congress in Houston, scientist Dimitri Malashenkov revealed she had actually died within hours of launch when the cabin overheated
What happened when a Mediterranean national park watched its shallow marshes dry out while illegal wells fed a strawberry industry next door, and why did the European Court finally intervene?
