Europa is the smoothest solid object in our Solar System, thanks to its thick shell of ice. Yet beneath its smooth exterior, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon seems to harbor secrets – namely a deep, salty...
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Antarctic Sea Ice Is The Lowest It’s Been in 45 Years of Records, Researchers Report : ScienceAlert
Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at...
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Sea Ice Surrounding Antarctica Hit a New Record Low, Putting Ice Shelves at Risk : ScienceAlert
The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica’s ground ice sheet to waves and warmer temperatures, scientists reported Thursday. The National Snow...
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Scientists Discover a Weird New Form of Ice That May Change How We Think About Water : ScienceAlert
Scientists rattling normal frozen water around in a jar of ultracold steel balls have discovered a previously unknown form of ice, closer to liquid water than any other ice yet. This is amorphous ice,...
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An Iceberg The Size of London Has Broken Free From Antarctica Ice Shelf : ScienceAlert
A huge iceberg nearly the size of Greater London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf near a research station, the second such split in two years, researchers announced Monday. The British Antarctic Survey...
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A New Type of Fractal Has Been Discovered in Magnetic Ice : ScienceAlert
Fractal patterns can be found everywhere from snowflakes to lightning to the jagged edges of coastlines. Beautiful to behold, their repetitive nature can also inspire mathematical insights into the chaos of the physical landscape....
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Giant Blooms of Microscopic Life Seem to Be Thriving Beneath Antarctic Ice : ScienceAlert
The Southern Ocean’s vast shelves of floating ice appear to hide sprawling blooms of phytoplankton, a discovery that could significantly change our understanding of Antarctica’s marine ecosystem and how it might be impacted by...
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Oldest Human DNA in UK Reveals Ancient Peoples Emerging From The Ice Age
Around 27,000 years ago, an immense sheet of ice coated two-thirds of the British Isles, making the region less than hospitable for human habitation. That all changed as the warming climate transformed the landscape,...
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