Newborn Earth

There are places on Earth where everyone can easily imagine conditions on the planet four billion years ago while it was just forming. These places are usually located deep underground, near magma chambers. One of such locations is the underground Baksan Neutrino Observatory established by the Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS. Recently, biologists from the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems have descended to its tunnels with environments seemingly incompatible with life and managed to discover life there.

This comic strip is the outcome of the joint project of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems and the Komikadze group, a collaborative association of scriptwriters, artists, illustrators, and science educators.