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Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

into space and strapping it to the exterior of the ISS, exposing it to the full brunt of cosmic radiation.

The USS isn't that far out in space; it's in LEO, well within the Earth's magnetic field, and therefore protected from most cosmic radiation. But not all.

That doesn't make the experiment invalid, just the phrasing inaccurate.

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