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Remarkable as these discoveries might once have seemed, they have become almost commonplace. In the past few months alone, researchers have extracted colonies of microbes that thrive at 137[degrees]F in an underground hot spring in Idaho and found others eating into volcanic rock 1,200 ft. beneath the sea floor. Over the past few years, in fact, scientists have been finding life in all sorts of places where biology textbooks say it shouldn't exist. Microorganisms are thriving in thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park and in pristine veins of water two miles underground in South Africa. They...
...strike also suggests the Israelis are showing greater inclination to extend the focus of their response to terror attacks to Gaza, given the fact that most of the cities of the West Bank remain in the hands of the Israeli military and Palestinian militants there have gone underground. The coming weeks are likely to see intensified clashes in both Gaza and the West Bank, which will once again put the kibosh on the latest efforts to tamp down the level of confrontation...
...create victims." In Macugnaga, scientists are still struggling to explain why the glacier is sliding down the mountainside so fast. All that melting water may be a factor, but the movement may also have something to do with the glacier itself - the distribution of its ice mass and its underground water pressure. Regardless of what is behind the Macugnaga incident, most scientists agree that the state of glaciers is an indication of the overall health of the planet. "It's hard to say how much is due to natural forces and how much human activity is to blame," says Luca...
...have to go to bed? Why can’t we hold our breaths until we pass out? I’ve decided that some sick individual must go around America sucking out all the common sense from teenage brains and hiding it in a vault somewhere underground in Montana until sometime, well, sometime after college...
...Harvard senior testified this week in federal court that she introduced her best friend to the underground world of white supremacist organizations and removed evidence—including 50 pounds of bomb-making materials—from her friend’s apartment...