OGL in the NEWS, on the WWW
Samples of the news media coverage involving OGL at UIC projects

UIC's mission: To model life on Saturn's moon in the lab (2018)

UIC's news release about our NASA Astrobiology Institute grant was distributed on November 29, 2018. 

in English
- UIC Today "UIC’s mission: To model life on Saturn’s moon in the lab."
- 2019 Scientific American
- Sciencex.com
- Forbes
- The Guardian
- Eurekalert/AAAS
​- December 12, 2018: WTTW Chicago Tonight science roundup. Look at the broadcast after 2:50 minutes (discussing the Chinese mission to the far side of the moon) and here we are. Rabiah Mayas is as excited as we are about this project. 
The brine of Lake Vida (Antarctica) has an active microbial community at -13 ˚C (2012)

More than 400 websites and news outlets covered the publication of this manuscript. Alison Murray was interviewed by the BBC and NPR.  Below are a few remaining websites.  We had a cover story in PNAS, and Nature had a short article about it. The paper was selected by NSF as one of the 35 Science Highlights of 2012 and by Science News as one of the 200 “most important stories” in worldwide science for 2012. 

in English 
- BBC news "Antarctic lake's clue to alien life."
- LA Times "Beneath 50-foot ice layer, an Antarctic lake full of life."
- The Guardian, UK "Antarctic lake find pushes known boundaries of what life can endure."
- wired.com "No Light, No Warmth, No Problem: Extreme Life Thrives in Antarctic Lake."
- Antarctic Sun (USAP) "No Small Discovery,  Microbial life found in extreme environment of Antarctica's Lake Vida."
- CBSnews "
- TGD "Ancient microbes tough it out in Antarctic lake."
- PhysOrg.com "Digging deeper below Antarctica's lake."
- LiveSciences "Finding life in a buried Antarctic lake."
- WordPress "Scientists find life in ice-capped Antarctica lake."
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in Spanish
- Spain "Scienciaplus.com "Microbios subsisten aislados miles de años en salmuera bajo el hielo antártico."
in French "Une vie microbienne trouvée enfouie dans un lac gelé repousse les limites de ce que peut endurer la vie."
in Russian  "3000 лет без света, тепла и кислорода. В подлёдном озере найдены живые бактерии."
in Dutch Scientias.nl "Microben ontdekt in meer dat al 2800 jaar van buitenwereld is afgesloten."  
and many more.
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View of the borehole from the tent floor.
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PictureMain cave fill outcrop at Central Quarry (Il)
Pennsylvanian cave fill provides exquisite fossil preservation and paleoclimate information (2009)

in English​
- ScienceDaily "Treasure trove of fossils found in limestone cave."
- Chicago Tribune "Cave found by students a geological gold mine; Kendall quarry yields rare fossils."
- LiveScience "Cave near Chicago full of ancient wonders."
- Science 2.0 "Treasure trove of fossils found In cave near Chicago."
- Phys.org "Treasure trove of fossils found In Kendall county cave." 

Plotnick et al. 2009 in Palaios.
Archaea biomarkers detected in ~2.7 billion year old sediments of Timmins (Ontario) (2007)

in English 
- ScienceDaily "Ancient Organisms Discovered In Canadian Gold Mine."
- The Daily Galaxy "Ancient Organisms Found in Canada's Deep."
- UPI "2.7 billion-year-old fossils are found."
- Phys.org "Ancient organisms discovered in Canadian gold mine."

in French "La mine d'or de l'évolution" Interview with Radio Canada (Fabien Kenig).  
In English Interview of Todd Ventura  CBC Radio 1, Tuesday (Ontario Today show). 
in Czech OSEL: "Prastarý život z kanadského zlatého dolu."
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Todd Ventura (left) and Todd Brown (right) deep underground in Timmins, sampling.
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Intermittent euxinia: Reuniting a black shale with its biofacies (2004)

in English
-  Scienceblog "Seabed secrets in English clay" 
- Scienceblog.com "Oxygen, Non oxygen breathing organisms coexisted"
- Eurekalert
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Lower Oxford Clay (photo source saurian.blogspot.com)