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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

21 March 2018

A strange discovery, made by polar explorer Robert Scott a century ago, might explain how complex life survived when the planet froze over into “Snowball Earth”
A lake in Antarctica where the R1S1 strain of Halorubrum lacusprofundi was discovered

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

21 August 2017

Viruses are not like other organisms and nobody is quite sure where they originated, but a newly discovered single-celled organism seems to offer a clue

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