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A ship carrying nearly 40 scientists will spend a month doing research at the edge of the Antarctic ice. There are goals but no guarantees, and plenty of perils.

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While surveying the Atacama Trench in the southeastern Pacific, researchers encountered life where few ever imagined it could ...