Reanimating Brain Tissue from Cryogenic Preservation, 46,000-Year-Old Worm Revived, Mummy Smells, and TDIH

Another Weird Wednesday episode. Today we are reanimating life as scientists successfully revive brain tissue, and a 46,000-year-old worm comes back to the world of the living. Plus, we learn what mummies smelled like. On This Day in History, the Catholic Church bans Galileo from teaching his theory that the Earth rotates around the sun.

A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva | PLOS Genetics

Ancient Egyptian mummies smell 'sweet' and 'spicy', researchers say | Offbeat News | Sky News

What Does a Mummy Smell Like? Scientists Uncover Surprising Truth | SciTechDaily

The truth about Galileo and his conflict with the Catholic Church | UCLA

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