Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a treasure trove of new data about RNA viruses, expanding ecological research possibilities and reshaping our understanding of how these small […]
Ohio State University
Posted inCryobiology
15,000-year-old Viruses Discovered In Tibetan Glacier Ice
Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
Newly Spotted Frozen World Orbits in a Binary Star System
A newly discovered planet in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth is expanding astronomers’ notions of where Earth-like–and even potentially habitable–planets can form, and how to find […]