The search for life in harshest, most extreme places: an Antarctic lake, maybe …
Reaching Lake Vostok is a major discovery avidly anticipated by scientists around the world hoping that it may allow a glimpse into microbial life forms, not visible to the naked eye, that existed before the Ice Age. It may also provide precious
Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never- before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, the state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti said Monday. “Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of
Jubilant Russian scientists are carrying home 40 liters of relic water, which waited for them, unblemished, in the Antarctic, long before the man first trod the Earth. Lake Vostok's treasury is ready to reveal its millions-year-old
The Russian scientists drilling into ancient buried Antarctic Lake Vostok have reached their destination, the Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported today. The team is apparently alive and well despite a week of suspicious
Russia's Antarctic research institute has confirmed that its drilling team has indeed penetrated to the sub-glacial Lake Vostok. Read more.
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