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Out-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans
3+ hour, 36+ min ago (499+ words) Published Jun 19, 2026 12: 00 PM EDT One consequence of climate change you probably haven't considered? Iceberg traffic. In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers from the Technical University of Denmark found that Greenland's melting glaciers are unleashing a swarm…...
Scientists Detect Strange Rumbling Deep Beneath Antarctica
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (382+ words) Published Jun 15, 2026 5: 02 PM EDT Something is stirring deep beneath the thick sheet of ice blanketing Antarctica. With the help of deep learning algorithms, scientists have discovered hundreds of previously unknown small earthquakes under the David Glacier, an enormous shelf that…...
Scientists Detected Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah Almost 50 Years Ago. They Just Figured Out What It Was
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (445+ words) Published Jun 14, 2026 11: 15 AM EDT A mysterious earthquake deep below northern Utah had scientists scratching their heads back in 1979. The rumble seemingly occurred far lower beneath the Earth's crust than scientists had believed was possible. The tremor may not have been…...
Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (437+ words) Published Jun 14, 2026 9: 45 AM EDT When you're studying weather patterns across Antarctica, recording breaking heat is pretty much one of the last things you want to see. Unfortunately, that's exactly what June has wrought across broad swaths of the icy continent,…...
California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds
1+ week, 2+ day ago (573+ words) Published Jun 10, 2026 10: 51 AM EDT Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and San Jacinto, where large tectonic plates grind past each other, occasionally triggering violent earthquakes. While smaller quakes are not uncommon in the region,…...
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
1+ week, 6+ day ago (456+ words) Published Jun 6, 2026 12: 30 AM EDT The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4. 6 billion years ago, with the Sun and its planets emerging from the collapse of a massive cloud of interstellar gas. Our star system's early…...
Scientists Intrigued by "Negative Mass Anomaly" Under Surface of Mars
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (516+ words) Published Mar 27, 2026 11: 57 AM EDT NASA's In Sight Mars lander made an unusual discovery while probing the Red Planet's surface for seismic activity. After poring over years of data from the spacecraft, and comparing it to measurements taken by NASA's Viking…...
Rapid Space Launches Shifting the Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (399+ words) Published Mar 9, 2026 4: 47 PM EDT Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Space has never been more accessible than it is today. Launches have become an almost daily occurrence as companies and governments from around the world continue…...
There's a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for Antarctica's Waterfall of Blood
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (302+ words) Published Feb 27, 2026 12: 08 PM EST Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A seeming waterfall of blood in the Antarctic may sound like something from an HP Lovecraft story. But scientists say they've found a perfectly mundane explanation…...
Antarctica's Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (274+ words) Published Feb 22, 2026 11: 30 AM EST For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing "gravity holes," which are enormous depressions in the Earth's crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average. As detailed in a new paper published in the…...