Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UVC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UVC</span></a> light kills nearly everything—except this unusual organism<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UV</span></a>-C is such a killer, in fact, that scientists have questioned whether life can survive on worlds that lack an ozone layer, such as <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> or distant <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/exoplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanets</span></a>. Research suggests one hardy <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/lichen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lichen</span></a>, a hybrid organism made of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a>, may have cracked the UV-C code with a built-in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sunscreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunscreen</span></a>, despite never experiencing these rays in its long evolutionary history. <br><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/uv-c-light-kills-nearly-everything-except-unusual-organism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/uv</span><span class="invisible">-c-light-kills-nearly-everything-except-unusual-organism</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/hoNfL" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/hoNfL</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>