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  1. Astralnaut

    Extreme 'Fire Amoeba' Smashes Record For Heat Tolerance

    A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance. The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning "fire amoeba from the Cascades", as described in a preprint on bioRxiv – grows and divides...
  2. Cold Ethyl

    Pa. researchers use toxic tomb fungus to attack cancer cells

    It's known as the deadly fungus credited with killing the archaeologists who opened the tomb of King Tut. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers say they've transformed it into a promising treatment for cancer. Aspergillus flavus is a toxic yellow-spored fungus that likely entered and...
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