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The host of life on ice includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, even microscopic animals like nematodes, some dead and some alive in suspended animation.

Organisms that can survive in this suspended, or anabiotic, state, Yarzábal explained, include not just extremophile bacteria but also viruses, fungi, protozoa and microscopic animals called nematodes.

Initially, these microscopic specks look like little more than space dust floating around the ether until they form almost human shapes.

White granulated sugar is composed of microscopic, crystalline sucrose molecules.

Before a microscopic killer shut down offices in the real world, the concept of a work-life balance had already been unmasked.