A bacterium that sat dormant in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years has been revived by NASA scientists. NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover, who led the team, said the find bolsters the case for finding life elsewhere in the universe, particularly given this week’s news, broken by New Scientist, of frozen lakes just beneath the surface of equatorial Mars.
Ice age bacteria brought back to life
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