Blobs and smears of microbial life growing in clear plastic disks are confirmation of a community living in a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists studying the lake have said.
Water retrieved from subglacial Lake Whillans contains about 1,000 bacteria per milliliter (about a fifth of a teaspoon) of lake water, biologist John Priscu of Montana State University told Nature News. Petri dishes swiped with samples of the lake water are already growing colonies of microbes at a good rate, Nature News reported.
Lake Whillans is 2,625 feet (800 meters) below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. After breaking through the ice on Jan. 28, researchers are returning to the United States with 8 gallons (30 liters) of lake water and eight sediment cores from the lake bottom. These samples will be tested for signs of microbial life, which could shed light on the types of extreme life that is able to thrive in such harsh environments.
Guatemala’s top court overturns ex-dictator’s genocide conviction 2013 05 22 Guatemala’s top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of the proceedings.
The ruling late Monday threw into disarray a process that had been hailed as historic for delivering the first guilty verdict for genocide against a former Latin ...
Papers Please: TSA-Style Checkpoints at UK Bus & Train Stations 2013 05 22 ‘Airport-style’ harassment to “help people who use public transport feel safer.”
Travel by train, tram or bus to destinations in central England and you are increasingly likely to be greeted by Britain’s ‘yellowjackets’: the high-visibility uniforms of Britain’s police force.
‘Airport-style’ security checkpoints are being rolled out at local bus and train stations up and down the UK after local pilot schemes ...
Man with ties to Boston bombing suspect shot, killed during FBI questioning 2013 05 22 As the investigation by officials into the Boston Marathon Bombing unfolds, the revelations are becoming stranger and more suspect.
Wired.com reports:
An FBI agent shot and killed an Orlando man and former mixed-martial arts fighter believed to be tied to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Early this morning, during a post-midnight interview with Ibragim Todashev at his apartment, an ...
The Soviet Story - Why killing is essential to communism 2013 05 22
Communist regimes around the Globe are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism (death toll totals more than 94 million people). In the USSR alone communists killed more than 20 million people. Where are the seeds of evil that makes killing and torturing so essential to the ideology of Communism?
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Global warming debunked: NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere 2013 05 22 Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA’s Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long ...
Guatemala’s top court overturns ex-dictator’s genocide conviction
Papers Please: TSA-Style Checkpoints at UK Bus & Train Stations
Man with ties to Boston bombing suspect shot, killed during FBI questioning
The Soviet Story - Why killing is essential to communism
Global warming debunked: NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere