Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by selcuka 595 days ago
I like how latin names for such organisms are (intentionally) so fitting: "radiodurans".
2 comments

But it's just a side effect of being an extremophile with really good DNA repair machinery. The microbe isn't intentionally resistant to radiation. It's not adapted specifically to radiation environments.
The Greek half of the name is equally fitting.