Susanne Wedlich
Susanne Wedlich studied biology and political science in Munich and has worked as a writer in Boston and Singapore. She has written for Der Spiegel, National Geographic and Spektrum der Wissenschaft, and she is the author of Slime: A Natural History.
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Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.