Tardigrades can survive freezing near absolute zero, extreme radiation, and the vacuum of space by drying into glass-like tuns that suspend their biology until conditions improve - Silicon Canals

Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, and shot into the vacuum of space, and they do it by replacing the water in their cells with a glass-like sugar that suspends their biology until conditions improve

Tardigrades can survive freezing near absolute zero, extreme radiation, and the vacuum of space by drying into glass-like tuns that suspend their biology until conditions improve

A tardigrade dropped into liquid helium at -272°C, boiled in a beaker, irradiated with a dose that would kill a human a thousand times over, or exposed to the raw vacuum of low Earth orbit will, i...