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  "path": "/space/107077/space-traveling-microbes-an-unusual-experiment-shocked-skeptics",
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  "textContent": "Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.\n\nScientists have discovered that a hardy microbe can endure pressures strong enough to pulverize rock, strengthening the case that life might survive the impact of an _asteroid_ blasting it off a planet.\n\nIn a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with …",
  "title": "Space-traveling microbes? An unusual experiment shocked skeptics."
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