Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living "time capsules" survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and without food and energy from the sun.

Lake Vostok is located beneath four kilometers of ice in East Antarctica. The lake is approximately 250 km long and 50 km wide. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleo-climatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for as long as 15 million years.

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They may look like long-lost objects from a distant high-tech civilisation, but these large black objects buried in the Canadian Arctic are huge chunks of ice - the oldest ice ever found in North America. Researchers say the discovery could help predict the fate of the deep Arctic permafrost.
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Седемте чудеса на света, създадени от човешка ръка, не са се променили с хилядолетия. В природата, обаче, нещата са по-динамични. Природата на родната ни планета никога не остава съвсем същата. Разбира се, нейните „чудеса” са къде по-мащабни от човешките творения и засягат всичко живо в познатия ни свят. В статията на Катрин Брейхик в „Ню сайънтист” са изброени на едно място седем нови природни явления, неизвестни в близкото минало. Някои от тях са се появили или са регистрирани в нашето съвремие и не са добре изследвани.
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A Resource-Based Economy is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival.

Modern society has access to highly advanced technology and can make available food, clothing, housing and medical care; update our educational system; and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society.