There's a thriving microbiome inside your microwave oven

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The team suggests that the extremophile strains they found in the microwave ovens might have been ‘selected’ evolutionarily by surviving repeated rounds of radiation, and could have biotechnological applications, such as in the bioremediation of toxic waste.

That’s an interesting idea, and i hope they do some proper research into

Wut… A microwave is non-ionizing radiation, it’s just electromagnetic energy. It makes things hot and maybe a very tiny bit of cellular damage. Actual radioactive things get hot, but not for the same reason a microwave gets hot.

Meaning…mediation of toxic waste is not the same as dealing with microwave energy. You have a better chance of extracting radioactive consuming microboes from Chernobyl than my home microwave.