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Six-million-year-old Ice Discovered In Antarctica Offers Unprecedented Window Into A Warmer Earth

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Ice Planet Research: British Antarctic Survey Discovery Building Comes To Life

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Ice Planet Research: British Antarctic Survey Discovery Building Comes To Life

Are There Living Microbes On Mars? Check The Ice.

Mars

Are There Living Microbes On Mars? Check The Ice.

Unexpected Discovery On Titan Challenges Our View On Chemistry Before Life Emerged

Titan

Unexpected Discovery On Titan Challenges Our View On Chemistry Before Life Emerged

Multi-technique Characterization Of Iron Reduction By An Antarctic Shewanella: An Analog System For Putative Martian Biosignature Identification

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Multi-technique Characterization Of Iron Reduction By An Antarctic Shewanella: An Analog System For Putative Martian Biosignature Identification

Waking Up Microbes Trapped In Permafrost For Up To 40,000 Years

Cryobiology

Waking Up Microbes Trapped In Permafrost For Up To 40,000 Years

Ice Mixed With Amino Acids Stores Methane In Minutes

Astrochemistry

Ice Mixed With Amino Acids Stores Methane In Minutes

Ice Gliding Diatoms Establish Record-low Temperature Limits For Motility In A Eukaryotic Cell

Cryobiology

Ice Gliding Diatoms Establish Record-low Temperature Limits For Motility In A Eukaryotic Cell

Modelling Snow Algal Habitat Suitability And Ecology Under Extreme Weather Events On The Antarctic Peninsula

Cryobiology

Modelling Snow Algal Habitat Suitability And Ecology Under Extreme Weather Events On The Antarctic Peninsula

Limiting Ice World Exploration: U.S. Will Retire Its Only Icebreaker Thus Stranding Polar Research

Icy Worlds

Limiting Ice World Exploration: U.S. Will Retire Its Only Icebreaker Thus Stranding Polar Research

The Effects Of Brines Relevant To Mars And The Ocean Worlds On Bacterial Growth Reflect Salt-specific Responses Across Water Activity

Mars

The Effects Of Brines Relevant To Mars And The Ocean Worlds On Bacterial Growth Reflect Salt-specific Responses Across Water Activity

Characterizing Microbial Communities in >7000- and >180,000-Year-Old Antarctic Permafrost Using a Low-Biomass Decontamination Protocol

Microbiology & Virology

Characterizing Microbial Communities in >7000- and >180,000-Year-Old Antarctic Permafrost Using a Low-Biomass Decontamination Protocol

Super Fungi Survive Extreme Mars-like Environments

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Super Fungi Survive Extreme Mars-like Environments

Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions: Applications to the Search for Extant Life on Mars

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions: Applications to the Search for Extant Life on Mars

Replicating The Flyby Sampling Of Salty Ocean World Ice Grains Using Impact Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Europa

Replicating The Flyby Sampling Of Salty Ocean World Ice Grains Using Impact Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Intact Polar Lipids As Organic Biomarkers Of Viable Extraterrestrial Life

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Intact Polar Lipids As Organic Biomarkers Of Viable Extraterrestrial Life

Temperature-Sensitive Lipids Reveal Intraspecific Diversity in Bacteria Isolated from an Ancient Antarctic Microbial Mat

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Temperature-Sensitive Lipids Reveal Intraspecific Diversity in Bacteria Isolated from an Ancient Antarctic Microbial Mat

A Thermodynamic Perspective On Potential Life In Icy Ocean Worlds

Icy Worlds

A Thermodynamic Perspective On Potential Life In Icy Ocean Worlds

Ice World Microbiology: Cryorhodopsins

Cryobiology

Ice World Microbiology: Cryorhodopsins

Antarctica’s Only Native Insect’s Unique Survival Mechanism

Cryobiology

Antarctica’s Only Native Insect’s Unique Survival Mechanism