Silver Lining

This is just funny:

Scientists have found thousands of worms alive in an experiment container that was aboard the space shuttle Columbia when it broke apart over Texas on Feb. 1. …

"I'm blown away by this," said Fred Sack, a biologist at Ohio State University, whose moss experiment shared a nine-pound locker with the worms during the flight and was also recovered in relatively good shape. "We thought obviously it was a write-off. Now it looks like we may actually recover data."

And science marches on…