2023-03-27

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Journey to the Microcosmos

You can find the Microcosmos Microscope at https://microcosmos.store/microscope

If we had to nominate an ambassador to represent the microcosmos, we would have to go with the tardigrade. They’re weird, adorable, and hardy, – a combination of traits that has made them many people’s first entry point into the microcosmos.

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SOURCES:

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319957012

https://www.livescience.com/65962-glowing-tardigrade-swallowed-aragonite.html

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth

https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/

https://www.livescience.com/moon-tardigrades-future.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773438/

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth

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