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This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Sourdough is the oldest kind of leavened bread in recorded history, and people have been eating it for thousands of years. The components of ...

You are more likely to take a trip to the Moon than to see a microbe called Legendrea loyezae under a microscope. Nasa’s Apollo program sent a total of 24 people to the Moon between 1968 and 1972.