Major biological discovery inside the Chernobyl reactor??
This slime, a collection of several fungi actually, was more than just surviving in a radioactive environment, it was actually using gamma radiation as a food source. Samples of these fungi grew significantly faster when exposed to gamma radiation at 500 times the normal background radiation level.
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And yet, the discovery of the mushrooms paled in comparison to the discovery of the spider's web above the fungi that spelled out, in Russian, the word "Radiant."
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