Science is Sexy Tidbit: Just Add Water [Video]

Rotifers: Tiny animals that survive against all odds, known for not having sex for around 80 million years. In the following video, award-winning Cambridge researcher Alan Tunnacliffe drains 90% of the water in their microscopic bodies, heat some of them to the boiling point and then freezes them in liquid nitrogen, to later observe that they still thrive!


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