How Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs

Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press.Living organisms are surprisingly creative when it comes to finding their way into hostile environments. Microbes, after all, thrive everywhere from hyperarid deserts and hydrothermal vents to the stratosphere.Of all hostile environments, one might think the most unbreachable to be the laboratory, where populations of bacteria are stored inside tubes sealed with tight screw-caps and stacked in freezers at -80°C. Of course, normal evolutionary processes don’t...