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Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

23 May 2017

A study led by Professor Paul McMillan and Dr Rachael Hazael (UCL Chemistry and UCL Earth Sciences) has found that bacteria on an incoming meteorite may be able to survive the violent shockwave created when crash-landing on a planet by changing their cell walls. Read: New Scientist