Scientists Discover Life in Arctic Ice at -15 Degrees Celsius - Bytes Europe
New #research from #Stanford, published last month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has revealed that #algae can move at #temperatures as low as -15 degrees Celsius.
The algae, a thin layer found in ice of the Arctic polar cap, were previously thought to be trapped or domant and few bothered to study them.
They brought the samples back to the lab, extracted diatoms from the ice cores, recreated their environments in a petri dish containing a thin layer of frozen freshwater, a layer of very cold saltwater
“You can see the diatoms actually gliding, like they are skating on the ice,” said lead author and Stanford postdoctoral scholar Qing Zhang, who collected the samples during an #Arcticresearch expedition to the #StanfordReport
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