A new ship and a wave of funding will let scientists drill where they have never been able to drill before, from near the North Pole to the rocks lying beneath Earth's crust. Rex Dalton and David Cyranoski report.
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Cyranoski, D. Digging in. Nature 426, 492–494 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426492a
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