New Edible Antifreeze for Ice Cream Developed
	It's ironic how the biggest nightmare of ice cream companies around the world is in fact ice. To prevent the formation of large ice crystals, most of them resort to adding edible antifreeze to the cream mix, thus keeping the texture of the ice cream smooth and silky no matter how many times it has been refrozen. However, certain types of edible antifreeze, such as the one made of proteins extracted from animals, may never become [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 11:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Phoenix's Robotic Arm Delivers Second Sample
	NASA confirmed that the robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander delivered its second sample for analysis to the wet chemistry laboratory of the spacecraft. While the first sample test of the lander failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to the appearance and evolution of life as we know it on the Red Planet, the results of the second test will act as a scale for the accuracy of the ones obtained during the first analysis perfo ... [read more >>]
	08 July 2008, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

North Pole Iceless by the End of the Summer, Scientist Say
	The news regarding climate change has recently gone from bad to the very worst. By predicting the weather and ocean conditions in the following months researchers discovered that there is a relatively good chance than at the end of this summer there will be little or no ice left at the North Pole. The probability of 2008 marking the first year in recorded history with no ice at the North Pole is about 50 percent. Senior resear ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Camera Shows Possible Ice Beneath Phoenix Mars Lander
	On Saturday, NASA and University of Arizona mission controllers revealed an image taken with the camera on Phoenix's robotic arm showing a white patch of soil under the lander, which the team members believe to be water ice. The patch is about one meter in diameter, seems to be bright white and is surrounded by the three legs of the lander. Previously, the team members had stated that they were hopping to find such a feat ... [read more >>]
	02 June 2008, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Phoenix Looks Beneath its Belly, Suffers Short Circuit
	The robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander was used yesterday along with the camera attached to it to view the ground beneath the spacecraft and make certain that the soil is clear of any big rocks. The arm has also touched the ground of the landing area for the first time while one ... [read more >>]
	31 May 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Martian Polygons Slightly Different than Expected
	Amongst some of the first images sent back by the Phoenix Mars Lander in the outcome of its landing on the surface of Mars on the evening of last Sunday lies this particular one, showing the now famous polygon patterns characteristic to the north polar plains of the Red Planet. In a ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Phoenix Prepares to Start Digging
	The Phoenix Mars Lander has now more than 24 hours on the Red Planet and it is still undergoing preparations for expected digging missions, which it will need to complete in the following months. As soon as it set foot on Martian soil, Phoenix went right to work and in approximately two hours after the landing it sent its first pictures back to Earth, revealing ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Phoenix Mars Lander Expected to Touchdown Tomorrow
	Phoenix's nine month journey to the Red Planet is set to end tomorrow, May 25, with its landing in the north polar regions of Mars. Whether or not it manages to land remains uncertain until the spacecraft is safely on the ground, especially considering the relatively long list of failed missions to the Red Planet in the last two decades or so. Some say landing on Mars is hard, others however reckon that the spacecrafts were victims of ... [read more >>]
	24 May 2008, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Frozen Summer Treats
	With summer already here, all of us need a little practice in the "frozen delights" department. And it's not just funny and tasty treats for kids that I'm talking about – we all need to cool off from time to time and why not do it in a way that's both tasty and funny? Well, then, let's get to work. One thing that we should all keep in mind is that delicious frozen goodies do not exclusively mean calorific ice ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 09:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First Victim of Global Warming: the Narwhal
	The polar bear is indeed a more iconic animal than the narwhal and, on top of that, despite being classified as marine, we can see it mostly on land. This may explain why people have been focusing more on it than on other Arctic animals, when warning about the danger of extinction caused by global warming. With all this, a new research published in the Ecological Applications journal shows which species would be the first victim: the narwh ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A First Effect of Global Warming: More Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrids
	Global warming is a reality, and the Arctic is affected by it the hardest. Our grandchildren may not get to see polar bears, at least not in the wild. In the summer of 2007, the Arctic ice surface was about 30% under the long-term average level, a record of all times. Some studies forecast ice-free Arctic summers by 2040; some say that we could even get to see it happening this year. Since 1978, the trend has been only downward and the ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The 1,089 Pound (490 kg) Colossal Squid Is Defrost for Analysis
	This is one of the most sounding victories of cryptozoology. For long, the giant squids were thought to be just legendary creatures, the kraken of the northern sagas. Later on, the individuals washed ashore helped change this view. In recent years, fishermen even began to capture individuals. The one caught in February 2007 is the largest of all them. A New Zealand fishing crew accidentally captured the animal off the coast of Antarctica, ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

We Could See an Ice-Free North Pole This Year
	Our grandchildren won't get to see polar bears, at least not in the wild. In the summer of 2007, the Arctic ice surface was about 30% under the long-term average level, a record of all times. Some studies forecast ice-free Arctic summers by 2040; some say that we could even get to see it happening this year. "The set-up for this summer is disturbing," Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) told ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Class of Bright Objects Found in Kuiper Belt
	The first of these objects, 2003 EL61, was discovered back in 2005 and appears to be a strange shaped body rotating rapidly and chaotically about its axis. The fact that other five objects were found in the same orbit in 2007 suggests that all may have originated from a larger object destroyed during a collision about a billion years ago. Recent observations reveal that the brightness of these objects varies very slightly in rela ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sea Level Will Be Higher by 1.5 m (5 ft) at the End of This Century
	The sea level rise is well understood in the current conditions of global warming. Glaciers and ice sheets are melting fast. But it seems that we are largely unaware of the dimension of the phenomenon, as a new research presented at the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria, this week, shows that by the end of this century, sea level could be by 1.5 m (5 ft) higher than now. Among other factors, this new calculation has ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This is What Happens With Earth's Glaciers
	In small amounts ice is a solid, brittle, crystalline material. But in ticker layers, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the part situated underneath behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow, so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slopes. That's why a glacier behaves like a slow flowing ice river. Glaciers form in the high peak of the mountains, in the debris-filled valleys. The snowfall fro ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 17:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

African Mountain Glaciers Will Be Gone in 30 Years
	Ancient Greeks and Egyptians talked about the Mountains of the Moon as the source of the Nile River. Indeed, the Ruwenzori Mountains, located between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, represent the highest water source for the Nile (with peaks over 16,000 ft (4,900 m)) and one of the few equatorial mountains with an ice cap. But now WWF and National Geographic signals that the mountains have lost 50% of their ice crown in the last ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Next Antarctic Collapse: As Big As Half of Hawaii
	Global warming works extremely fast. The next huge chunk of ice which is going to split off Antarctica is now hanging on by a thin strip. First, researchers detected a huge iceberg, 25 mi by 1.5 mi (41 km by 2.5 km), which has broken away from the shelf. But the team at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found in fact the entire Wilkins Ice Shelf, about 6,180 square mi (16,000 square km — about half the size of Hawaii) is going to collaps ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Disastrous Mini Ice Age around 536 AD, Caused by Volcanic Megablast
	The Krakatoa eruption may have been just a child play compared to the volcanic megablast that spread havoc in the human civilization around 536 AD. Its volcanic cloud could have triggered a global chill that caused famine in half of the world's population. An international research published in the journal "Geophysical Research Letters" has found sulphates, molecules representing marks of an eruption, in Greenland ice. T ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mystery Solved: Why Mammoths Were Humped
	The increasing melting of the permafrost, the frozen ground of the north, due to the global warming, is exposing increasingly more frozen mammoths. Now, even calves. In May 2007, a complete frozen body of a 6-year-old mammoth calf was found in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region of the Arctic Russia. On September 27, 2004, the front part of a mammoth calf was discovered in the Olchan mine in the Oimyakon Region of Yakutia (famous for being the place ... [read more >>]
	22 March 2008, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

We Are Losing the Mountain Glaciers Twice Faster: up to 1.4 m (4.6 ft) per Year
	We are losing our mountain glaciers, and we're losing them increasingly fast. A report made by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), shows that the speed of glacier melting has increased by more than twice from 1980, being a serious clime change indicator. Average glacial shrinkage has increased from 30 cm (1 ft) per year between 1980 and 1999, to 0.5 m o ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Winter Arctic Ice Has Increased by 3.9% This Season
	The summer of 2007 registered the record of ice melting in the Arctic. Now, satellite data obtained by NASA reveals that the Arctic ice has recovered weakly, despite a very cold winter, and this summer melting could be another hit. In some Arctic areas, the colder-than-average winter of 2007-2008 has caused an increase in the area of new sea ice, but this can do little for stopping the decline of the perennial sea ice, an indicator of t ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mars' Promethei Planum Probed by MARSIS
	The Promethei Planum was previously a subject of study for ESA's Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera, which probed it back in September 2005, while being in a high orbit around the Red Planet. Now, new observations conducted with the Mars Advanced Radar for Ionoshpere and Subsurface Sounding, or MARSIS for short, reveals that south pole is covered with a layer of ice exceeding 3,500 meters in thickness. The images ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Avalanche on Mars!
	The unique event has been observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, HiRISE for short, on February 19, during a scan of a region of the Red Planet's surface near the north pole. This is the first image of an avalanche ever surprised on Mars! The image released yesterday by NASA clearly shows how a cloud front is moving away from the base of a slope covered with a mix of d ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 03:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NASA Satellites Prove it: Warmer Air Is Speeding Up Ice Loss in Greenland
	NASA confirms it: the surface temperature of Greenland's ice sheet is going up, fueled by warming air, causing a melt at the surface of and throughout the mass of the ice cap. A total melting of the Greenland ice would raise sea level by about 23 ft (7.8 m). This may not happen, but Greenland has been adding 2 mm to the sea level annually, starting with the end of the 20th century. The new research published in the 'Journal of Gl ... [read more >>]
	26 February 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

7 Things About Inuit (Eskimo) People
	1. Inuit (Eskimo) people inhabit a large area on the northern coast of North America, Arctic Archipelago, Greenland and the extreme point of eastern Siberia, on a length of 9,000 km (5,600 mi). They are the human population living in the toughest cold conditions, in a polar clime characterized by winters with temperatures of -45o C and strong winds that keep people indoors for days. The name of Eskimo comes from the languages of the Al ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

In the Summer of 2008, We Are Going to See Another Record of Arctic Ice Melting
	By the time of our grandchildren, polar bears may be gone, like the dinosaurs. In the summer of 2007, the Arctic ice surface was about 30% under the long-term average, a record of all times. Some studies forecast ice-free Arctic summers by 2040. Ignatius Rigor, a University of Washington climatologist, speaking at the Alaska Forum on the Environment, said that, in the summer of 2008, the Arctic sea ice could shrink even more ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Researchers Find Key to Glassy Water
	Water is probably one of the strangest substances known to man, mainly due to some mind baffling properties that seem to surprise scientists on a daily basis. It is the only known substance to exist in a free state in all three phases - gaseous, liquid and solid. As it freezes, it has a lower density than that of the liquid phase, as a gas it is one of the lightest gases on Earth, it has high surface tension, high heat capacity, ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

9 Amazing Things About Andes
	1. The Andes, this backbone of South America, have a length of 7,600 km (4,800 mi), covering a surface of 2 million square km (800,000 square mi), and having an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft). This is the longest terrestrial mountain range (longer chains are found on the bottom of the oceans). 2. The highest peak of the Andes is Aconcagua (6,962 m / 22,841 ft), in northwestern Argentina. This is the highest mountain in the ... [read more >>]
	28 January 2008, 16:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Huge Under-Ice Volcanic Explosion Found in Antarctica!
	Under the 3,000 m (10,000 ft) thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists have found proofs of a spectacular volcanic eruption. This happened under the Pine Island Glacier (in the area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet) about 2,000 years ago (in 325 B.C.) and the under-ice volcano is still active, having a 'volcanic explosion index' of 3-4. Currently, the heat expelled from the volcano melts the surrounding ice, creating a ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Grow a Snowflake
	The different shapes and sizes of snowflakes have been eluding scientists and mathematicians ever since the 17th century. Though they exist in multiple shapes, one of the most mysterious aspects of the natural snowflake growing process is why don't they produce an even wider range of crystal types. For the first time a mathematician and computer scientist from UC Davis in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin- ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Types of Clouds Discovered on Mars
	Most of the popular science articles and documentaries published over the years imprinted in our imagination a picture of Mars dominated by a massive desert of red sand constantly bayed in sunlight. Recent findings, however, tell a different story. ESA's Mars Express spacecraft revealed the presence of clouds of water ice particles, mostly around elevated surface structures such as the flanks of inactive volcanoes. Previo ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Best Ice Cream Delivered by Insect Antifreeze Technology
	Taste is more than chemical and connected to proper flavor. It implies signals of temperature and touch – what we call "mouth feeling" – and this is extremely important in the case of ice cream. A smooth high quality ice cream has tiny ice crystals, around 15 to 20 microns wide. But temperature variation, like when bringing the ice cream home from the market, can make these crystals get over 40 microns wide, as a res ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Really Happens When Water Ice Melts?
	Who would be so insane even to study such an effect? Well apparently, chemical companies find no laughing matter regarding such processes and are barely waiting to get their hands on the model followed by the water molecules during the melting process of ice. What appears to be as a well known natural process for most of us has, in fact, no mathematical model describing the behavior of the molecules inside the solid water crystal. Thus ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Amazing Things about Reindeer
	Waiting for Rudolph to bring you Santa Claus with the presents? Well, here is some data about this amazing Ice Age deer. 1.Reindeer are believed to have appeared during the last glaciation, 15,000 years ago. Their roots seem to be in South America. 5 million years ago, South America and North America got united through the Panama Isthmus. Then, fauna interchange took place: deer, jaguars and monkeys entered South America, while opossum ... [read more >>]
	15 December 2007, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Polar Bear Fossil: 130,000 Years Old!
	Its future is bleak because of the global warming and ice melting, but its past is going to be revealed to us. A team led by Professor Olafur Ingolfsson, from the University of Iceland, has discovered what seems to be the oldest known fossil of a polar bear, on the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, on sediments 110,000 to 130,000 years old. The jawbone could have belonged to an adult female and the biggest surprise is that the polar bears, ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Surprising Dinosaur Found in Antarctica
	Today, Antarctica is a frozen desert. But once, it was covered by a lush tropical vegetation and inhabited by heat-loving dinosaurs. A new research, published in the journal "Acta Palaeontologica Polonica", describes a large dinosaur that wandered across the Antarctica about 190 million years ago, during the early Jurassic period. A partial foot, leg and ankle bones of the extinct beast were found by a team of Augustana Colle ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Can Penguins Dive so Deep?
	This is the champ diver of the birds' world, not just the largest penguin. A new study, published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology", attempts to decode the secret of why emperor penguins can dive down to 1,850 ft (565 m) for up to 23 minutes (with an average of 6 minutes) with a sole breath: a special hyper-sensitive type of hemoglobin. Some beaked whales can dive to 1,900 m (6,300 ft) depths for 85 minutes, but ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sled Dogs: The Race of the Frozen North
	We are more used to see beasts like horse, donkey, mule, cattle, buffalo, camels, llama, yak, or elephant being used as working animals. At least in the documentaries. But in the 19th century Europe, dog traction was a popular mini-version of horse traction. Usually, dogs were harnessed to a two wheel (rarely four wheel) cart, rarer in groups of two or four animals, being the "horse of the poor people", like small trade-producers ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Last Surviving Ice Age Beast: Musk Ox
	This animal was the third largest beast that Europeans hunted when the continent was covered by ice and snow, after the woolly mammoth and woolly rhino. Indeed, the musk ox (Ovibos moschatus), even if not very tall due to its short feet (just 1.5 m or 5 ft), can be 410 kilos (910 pounds) heavy. The lineage of the musk ox started 3-5 million years ago with an antelope from the Asian steppes, Boopsis. Numerous species of musk ox existed ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 16:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Polar Bear, the Largest Living Carnivorous Mammal
	1.All living bears are the descendants of a fox-sized 20 million-year-old bear called Ursavus. The genus Ursus including modern brown bear (grizzly is part of this species), black bear and polar bear appeared 5-10 million years ago. Ursus etruscus that lived in Europe 1.5-2 million years ago is the ancestor of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), extinct 12,000 years ago. In Asia, from Ursus prearctos 600,000 years ago the brown bear (Ursus arc ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 12:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kilimanjaro, The Highest African Mountain: Records and Puzzles
	It is considered the roof of Africa. When German missionaries reported in 1848 a snow-covered mountain in equatorial Africa, everybody in Europe laughed. But later expedition confirmed this. Kilimanjaro is located in northeastern Tanzania, close to the border with Kenya, standing at only 3 degrees south of Equator (330 km). Kilima Njaro means Shining Mountains in Swahili language. Masai people call it Oldoinyo Oibor (White Mountain). ... [read more >>]
	21 November 2007, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oetzi, The Oldest Preserved Human Being: 5,300 Years Old
	At first sight, it looked like a crime place. A drought cadaver was lying face downward, half stuck in the ice. An accidental death or a crime? Or just another mountaineering victim at 3,200 m (10,660 ft) height in the Tirol Alps? The Ice Man was found in September 1991 by casualty by a couple of German mountaineers wandering on the Mount Similaun (in Oetztal Alps, at the border between Austria and Italy). The extremely warm summer in ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paradoxes of Global Warming: Greenland is Going Up!
	If the ocean levels rose by 13 cm (5 in) only between 1940 and 1980, before the current speeding of the global warming, a phenomenon that prolonged the day on Earth by 0.001 second, you can imagine what happened in the last three decades and what will follow!... Tuvalu is already a flooded nation. Paradoxically (or not), other islands have a different faith: Greenland is actually going upwards, rising up with 4 cm (1.6 in) annually, al ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fast Melting Glaciers Expose 7,000 Years Old Fossil Forest
	Melting ice has ‘provided’ us with frozen mammoths and even frozen people, like the famous Oetzi from the Alps, as if they were kept in a fridge. No wonder that melting glaciers in Western Canada, which recently reached a historic minimum, have unveiled 7,000-year-old tree stumps. The prehistoric tree stumps were left behind by the retreating melting glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park, some 40 mi (60 km) north of Vancouver, British ... [read more >>]
	01 November 2007, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Were the Mammoths?
	Mammoths are fossil elephants, closely related to the Asian elephants, from whose branch they split off 5.8 to 7.7 million years ago. They appeared in Africa where two species of mammoth lived 4.8 MA ago. A huge mammoth species, the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) roamed the plains of northern Eurasia during the Ice Age. This species lived 750.000 - 500.000 years ago and was 4.7 m (15.7 ft) tall, much taller than modern African ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Huge Iceberg The Size of Half London Has Just Broken Off Antarctica
	A large iceberg has just split off from Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica. Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument monitored the cleavage of the huge ice mass, 34 km in length and 20 km in width, having an area nearly half the size of Greater London. Icebergs appear due to the action of winds and waves, as the ice shelf expends too much to support part of itself, or through collision with an older iceberg ... [read more >>]
	23 October 2007, 02:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Global Warming Is Turning Greenland Really Green!
	Vikings named this land Greenland only for 'promotional' goals, as it was mostly a frozen land. Rapid thawing on the world's biggest island has started to improve conditions for agriculture, commercial fishing, mining and oil exploration. Arctic temperatures experience the most dramatic rise with the global warming. "The warmer climate will have a definite positive effect on Greenland's economic possibilities an ... [read more >>]
	19 October 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Global Warming Crowds the Walruses on the Shore
	No ice, no polar bears. We already know this. But what will happen with another icon of the Arctic, the walrus? Walruses have already started to change their habits and behavior. Thousands of them have gathered on Alaska's northwest coast, as a severe effect of the Arctic sea ice melting. Usually, the breeding females are encountered in summer and fall on the Arctic ice pack. But the smallest summer ice cap on record moved the ex ... [read more >>]
	09 October 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hope for Extraterrestrial Life: Bacteria Can Survive 100,000 Years at -55° C and 300 Atmospheres!
	An icy "Star Wars" world exists on Earth as well. Only that the characters are microscopical. A new research points to the fact that bacteria could survive trapped inside ice crystals, at ice depths of 3 km (1.9 mi) for over 100,000 years. This gives hope for life on remote, icy worlds in the Sun System. Living bacteria have been discovered in ice samples taken at depths of 4 km (2.5 mi) in Antarctica, but many researchers reg ... [read more >>]
	09 October 2007, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia