In a race against time to drill through a two-mile-thick ice cap covering a sub-glacial lake are scientists in Antarctica. The lake has been cut off from the rest of the world for up to a million years. The are doing so to retrieve samples of water and mud from Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica, which may harbour unique microbial life forms isolated from the rest of the biosphere from the time the ice cap first formed. The 12-man team from the British ...
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