Amazing! See the tasty slice here: Scientists have Finally Sampled The Most Abundant Material on Earth, Motherboard, via Digg.
Tag: Holidays
StarBear’s NightMare

On The Day of the Dead, StarBear has a nightmare! (H/T to the Horsehead Nebula.) Here is some information on the All Girls Like Ponies trope too…maybe a demon would be more fun? (I think that is a free story; you might have to register though.) Mmm, maybe there is a Demon Nebula? Nope, not according to ze google.
Holidays at Lake Vostok

(h/t to New Evidence: Antartica’s Ancient Ice-covered Lake is full of Life, iO9; PLOS ONE: Subglacial Lake Vostok)
Related articles
- Lake Vostok – Antarctic secrets coming to light (ruvr.co.uk)
- Lake Vostok buried under two miles of ice found to teem with life (richarddawkins.net)
- Lake Vostok may boast a thriving ecosystem (newscientist.com)
- Antarctic Lake Vostok: Inhospitable Lake Somehow Full Of Life, Could This Mean Species On Mars? (VIDEO) (hngn.com)
- Antarctic lake ‘might have fish’ (bbc.co.uk)
- New Life on Earth? (ghalialex7.wordpress.com)
- Antarctic Lake Vostok buried under two miles of ice found to teem with life (telegraph.co.uk)
- Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) Accretion Ice Contains a Diverse Set of Sequences from Aquatic, Marine and Sediment-Inhabiting Bacteria and Eukarya (plosone.org)
- Biologists find over 3,500 life forms in Antarctic Lake Vostok basin (indrus.in)
- Antarctic Lake Vostok ‘might have fish’ (arunbabyveranakunnel.wordpress.com)