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Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Tardagrades, you know, the adorable, microscopic water bears that can survive basically anything,

like being frozen for 30 years and then being revived again, or as a species, surviving all five mass extinctions.

Well, a newly discovered strain of Tardagrade has another superpower, protection from lethal levels of ultraviolet

light. A recent study published in the Royal Society Journal found that the paramacrobiotis

BLR strain of Tardagrade, first detected in Bangalore, exhibits a fluorescent shield to protect against

UV light, causing them to glow.

Quoting CNN, for the experiment, Sandeep M. Eswarapapha, Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, exposed this tardigrade along with another type of tardigrade, Hipsibius Exemplarist to UV light.

All of the paramacrobiotis tardardigrades survived for 30 days after 15

minutes of exposure to the lethal rays. The other tardigrade died within 24 hours of exposure.

The hardy tardigrade was also the only specimen observed in the experiment to have glowed under the harsh light,

which the researchers revealed was the key to their survival.

The research team proposed that the tardigrade has a fluorescent shield that absorbs the harmful light

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