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Researchers have discovered life in a buried Antarctic lake. But we\u2019re not surprised. Life is amazingly adaptive. Expose it to any environment \u2013 heat, ice, acid or even jet fuel \u2013 and it thrives. But this discovery of life under the ice may have exciting implications for finding biology beyond Earth.\nScientists share their discovery, and how they drilled down through a half-mile of ice.\nAlso, plunge into another watery alien world with director James Cameron, and the first solo dive to the deepest, darkest part of the ocean.\nPlus, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist tries to create life in his lab to learn more about biology\u2019s origins, and martian fossils abound in Robert J. Sawyer\u2019s latest sci-fi novel.\nGuests:\n\u2022\xa0Helen Amanda Fricker \u2013 Glaciologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego\n\u2022\xa0Jill Mikucki \u2013 Microbiologist at the University of Tennessee\n\u2022\xa0Chris McKay \u2013 Planetary scientist, NASA Ames Research Center\n\u2022\xa0Jack Szostak \u2013 Nobel Prize winning chemist, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital\n\u2022\xa0James Cameron \u2013 film director and explorer-in-residence for National Geographic\n\u2022\xa0Robert J. Sawyer \u2013 Hugo Award-winning author; most recently: Red Planet Blues\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices