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At the US Army Corps of Engineers’ research facility in central Alaska, a unique tunnel descends underground. Measuring over ...

Far beneath the icy Alaskan tundra, life lay dormant for tens of thousands of years. In ice-laden soil called permafrost, ...

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Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active ...

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The permafrost was a unique way in which the past was preserved, and the thawing ice could reveal several beings of the past, ...