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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 …",
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