We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake
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The discovery of preserved carcasses of tiny crustaceans and tardigrades beneath Lake Mercer suggests biologically complex life…
The discovery of preserved carcasses of tiny crustaceans and tardigrades beneath Lake Mercer suggests biologically complex life…
Environment Photo credit: Ice caves beneath Iceland. Could this be what the new subglacial lake looks like?
In 2013, Russian scientists had the world waiting with bated breath as they bored through two miles of Antarctic ice to make…
You’ve got a group of people with a mysterious disease, and you suspect that some microbe might be responsible. You collect…
by Elio Some time ago, we asked this Talmudic Question: Can you think of a place on Earth where there is free water but no…
What kinds of research did people talk about in July? Interestingly, most of the popular articles that I selected for the July…
Lake Vostok is a giant body of water buried under about 4000 meters of ice. Its pristine and only recently have the Russian…
Niecałe półtora roku temu rosyjska nauka odniosła olbrzymi sukces: działający w stacji antarktycznej Vostok badacze z Arktyczno-A…
For next weeks #microtwjc session (8pm BST 23rd July) I thought we would cool things down a little and discuss sequencing…
For next weeks #microtwjc session (8pm BST 23rd July) I thought we would cool things down a little and discuss sequencing…
from The Scientist by Chris…
If it weren't for several kilometers of ice, this is what Lake Vostok would look like. Columbia University Recently, a…
Credit: Randall…
A new study offers evidence that Antartica's Lake Vostok harbors its own unique ecosystem of life forms, despite being buried…
Lake Vostok lies beneath 2.4 miles of the Antarctic Eastern Ice Sheet. Photo: NASA …
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Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in…
Discovery, by nature, has a ripple effect. When one thing is found to be plausible, testable, or true, a suite of potential…
There's Lake Vostok, via Okay, it’s all sorted out: There IS life in Lake Vostok after all. In March, a team of Russian…
BOWLING GREEN, O.—Lake Vostok, buried under a glacier in Antarctica, is so dark, deep and cold that scientists had considered…