<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/nsm/news-events/stories/2018/0627-bacteria-space.php" dsn="news"><featured/><top-stories/><pubDate>06/27/2018 01:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Why Bacteria Survive in Space – UH Biologists Discover Clues</title><subtitle/><description>Hardy organisms threaten interplanetary contamination.</description><author/><author-email>https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-018-1191-y</author-email><author-phone/><image><img src="/nsm/_images/bchs/news-events/20180627-bacteria-space.jpg" alt="George Fox &amp; Madhan Tirumalai"/></image><categories>NSM</categories></item>