2025-08-29
25 分钟Welcome to The World, The Universe and Us, the weekly news podcast from New Scientist.
I'm Dr Rowan Hooper.
And I'm Dr Penny Sarche.
On today's show,
we look at a new study linking 140 different revolutions and rebellions to historical changes or disturbances in the climate and the environment.
And we hear about a new form of deep brain stimulation technology that could improve the way we treat a range of conditions.
We're going to start with the discovery of an organism that's able to live for astonishingly long periods of time and it's so long I think it begins to challenge really the concept the meaning of what it is to be alive well that's exciting so I'm thinking Stone pines live for a couple of thousand years.
Are we talking that kind of thing?
More.
5,000?
8,000?
100,000 years.
100,000?
This is a microbe found in the permafrost in Siberia that's stayed alive for at least 100,000 years.
And so this isn't a colony of things growing that sometimes you get very long-lived colonies of things.
This is an individual cell.
individual cells that have managed to stay alive through this long without dividing.
That's amazing.
I guess I have a lot of questions.
Is it frozen?