Mark<p>New <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacteria</span></a> Have Been Discovered on a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> Space Station</p><p>It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/spores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spores</span></a>, and may have evolved to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/survive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>survive</span></a> hundreds of miles above our planet’s surface.</p><p>This <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bacterium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacterium</span></a>, never before seen on Earth, was detected on <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tiangong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tiangong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> station. It has been named Niallia tiangongensis, and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station, living in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/microgravity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microgravity</span></a> conditions.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bacteria-unknown-on-earth-appears-on-chinese-space-station/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/bacteria-unkno</span><span class="invisible">wn-on-earth-appears-on-chinese-space-station/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SpaceStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceStation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ET</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ExtraTerrestrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraTerrestrial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>