Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with radiation, and exposed to the vacuum of space, and they do it by drying themselves into a glass-like state where every cellular process stops and they wait, sometimes for decades - Space Daily

Tardigrades can survive being boiled, frozen to near absolute zero, blasted with radiation, and exposed to the vacuum of space, and they do it by drying themselves into a glass-like state where every cellular process stops and they wait, sometimes for decades Space Daily Sandeep Eswarappa Investigates Tardigrades’ Secret to Surviving Extremes the-scientist.com