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Hardy Bacteria
This week on StarDate: In the heart of the dryest desert on Earth, microbes survive by living in the rocks — in a thin coating known as varnish. And it's possible that rocks on Mars could provide that same home for life.

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The Science of Art

StarDate editor Rebecca Johnson heads out on the trail of astronomy in art, literature, and history with celestial sleuth Donald Olson, who has studied the astronomical connections in works by Van Gogh and Munch, Chaucer and Shakespeare, and with the events of World War II and ancient Greece. Astronomer Bradford Behr returns to StarDate with a guide to identifying sky objects when you don't have a star chart or guidebook handy.

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