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Friday, January 18, 2013

The new cold war: US leads race to find life under Antarctica

The new cold war: US leads race to find life under Antarctica | Fox News: "Russia, the United States and Great Britain are facing off -- and this cold war is set in the coldest place on Earth. A trio of teams from the three countries have spent years planning, drilling and digging in a race to reach one of a handful of freshwater lakes buried up to a mile and a half beneath Antarctica’s trillion tons of ice, spring-fed lakes warmed by the Earth below and sheathed by thick ice above. The studies hope to find new life forms in the pitch dark, freezing water that has never seen sunlight."

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