Extreme Drilling: Searching for Life Under the Antarctic Ice Sheet

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The scientific community is on edge. On Wednesday, a British team of scientists and engineers will use a special hot water drill to bore through to a lake buried under three kilometers of Antarctic ice. Sediments taken from the lake bed could revolutionize what we know about past climates and the fortitude of life forms.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-872072.html