Summary: <p>Researchers have discovered life in a buried Antarctic lake. But we’re not surprised. Life is amazingly adaptive. Expose it to any environment – heat, ice, acid or even jet fuel – and it thrives. But this discovery of life under the ice may have exciting implications for finding biology beyond Earth. </p> <p>Scientists share their discovery, and how they drilled down through a half-mile of ice.</p> <p>Also, plunge into another watery alien world with director James Cameron, and the first solo dive to the deepest, darkest part of the ocean.</p> <p>Plus, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist tries to create life in his lab to learn more about biology’s origins, and martian fossils abound in Robert J. Sawyer’s latest sci-fi novel.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://sio.ucsd.edu/Profile/hafricker">Helen Amanda Fricker</a></strong> – Glaciologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://web.bio.utk.edu/micro/faculty/mikucki.html">Jill Mikucki</a></strong> – Microbiologist at the University of Tennessee</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/staff/chris-mckay">Chris McKay</a></strong> – Planetary scientist, <span class="caps">NASA</span> Ames Research Center</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://molbio.mgh.harvard.edu/szostakweb/people.html">Jack Szostak</a></strong> – Nobel Prize winning chemist, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://deepseachallenge.com/the-team/james-cameron/">James Cameron </a></strong> – film director and explorer-in-residence for National Geographic</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://sfwriter.com">Robert J. Sawyer</a></strong> – Hugo Award-winning author; most recently: <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425256820/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0425256820&linkCode=as2&tag=arweal-20">Red Planet Blues</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0425256820" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/instituto-seti-asi-es-la-vida/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p>
