Science News for Kids » University of Tennessee http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Mon, 20 May 2013 22:47:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Piercing a buried polar lake http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/01/researchers-in-antarctica-drilled-through-a-half-mile-of-ice-to-reach-water-that-hasnt-had-contact-with-the-atmosphere-for-thousands-of-years/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/01/researchers-in-antarctica-drilled-through-a-half-mile-of-ice-to-reach-water-that-hasnt-had-contact-with-the-atmosphere-for-thousands-of-years/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:48:41 +0000 Janet Raloff http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=15458 This 1,000-meter hose — spooled onto an enormous and very heavy container — was used as a drill to pierce deeply through Antarctica’s ice. Credit: J. Raloff/Science News for Kids

Researchers in Antarctica drilled through a half-mile of ice to reach water that hasn’t had contact with the atmosphere for thousands of years.]]> This 1,000-meter hose — spooled onto an enormous and very heavy container — was used as a drill to pierce deeply through Antarctica’s ice. Credit: J. Raloff/Science News for Kids

Researchers in Antarctica drilled through a half-mile of ice to reach water that hasn’t had contact with the atmosphere for thousands of years.]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/01/researchers-in-antarctica-drilled-through-a-half-mile-of-ice-to-reach-water-that-hasnt-had-contact-with-the-atmosphere-for-thousands-of-years/feed/ 0 Living long beneath the sea http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/microbes-in-the-mud-beneath-the-seafloor-may-live-millions-of-years-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-old-and-alive/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/microbes-in-the-mud-beneath-the-seafloor-may-live-millions-of-years-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-old-and-alive/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:08:27 +0000 Stephen Ornes http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=14369 roy1HR_Feature

Microbes in the mud beneath the seafloor may live millions of years, redefining what it means to be old and alive]]> roy1HR_Feature

Microbes in the mud beneath the seafloor may live millions of years, redefining what it means to be old and alive]]> http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/microbes-in-the-mud-beneath-the-seafloor-may-live-millions-of-years-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-old-and-alive/feed/ 0