Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science.

With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm.

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    2 months ago

    We’ve got the perfect global pandemic movie post-credits section.

    • Accelerating climate change and also the denial
    • Economic recession and increasing wealth gap
    • Myopic leadership both in government and corporate, rise of fascism
    • Misinformation campaigns, science and history denial becoming fashionable
    • Harambe

    We’re truly fucked.