An international panel of scientists will discuss research conducted at Lake Vostok in Antarctica at a press conference on Tuesday, May 28, as part of the American Geophysical Union’s 2002 Spring ...

Selected images from the Lake Vostok B-roll package. NSF-supported scientists, including John Priscu of Montana State University, dressed in cold-weather clothing, examine a piece of ice core taken ...

When thinking about Antarctica, most people picture a vast, icy, and hostile environment where very little can survive, and that is very accurate. If you drill down deep enough into the ice, however, ...

“We found much more complexity than anyone thought,” senior author Scott Rogers, a biologist at Bowling Green State University, said in a statement. “It really shows the tenacity of life, and how ...

After much controversy and an array of scientific challenges, researchers are finally ready to confirm that life in Lake Vostok doesn't just exist -- it thrives. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — ...

Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica's central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok, after the Vostok research station above it, ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden under more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) of ice, ...

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