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Record drill retrieves longest sediment core from Antarctic ice sheet
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (547+ words) The drill was part of this international SWAIS2C project (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2C). An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment core from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." Drilled at…...
Scientists track Antarctica’s 'gravity hole' since age of dinosaurs
11+ hour, 56+ min ago (572+ words) We treat gravity as a firm law, but the ground beneath Antarctica tells a different story " one where the planet's internal churn is actively weakening its grip. A new study led by the University of Florida has revealed that one…...
AI finally tracks what happens after icebergs break apart at scale
1+ week, 5+ day ago (476+ words) Researchers have built an AI system that tracks iceberg lifecycles and links fragments back to their original source. Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey have developed an artificial intelligence system that can automatically track icebergs throughout their entire lifecycle, from…...
132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks could solve 'dark period' puzzle
2+ week, 3+ day ago (560+ words) This discovery "solves" the puzzle by proving dinosaurs returned or persisted after the disaster. Two groundbreaking dinosaur track discoveries are changing the outdated image of the Jurassic period in South Africa; it turns out the world's ferocious prehistoric beasts continued…...
China-Chile team launch mission to study 435-mile-deep Atacama Trench
4+ week, 2+ day ago (523+ words) A joint China-Chile expedition aims to explore a 435-mile stretch of the Atacama Trench, a massive subduction zone in the eastern Pacific Ocean." The expedition kicked off aboard the Chinese research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao on Monday." The three-month…...
New map of Antarctica reveals hidden terrain with secrets to climate change
1+ mon, 23+ hour ago (508+ words) A new study penetrated Antarctica's ice sheet to discover a hidden terrain with the keys to climate change. What lies beneath Antarctica's immense and impenetrable ice sheet? Until now, we didn't fully know, but a new, groundbreaking study reached deeper…...
Map uncovers lakes and mountains buried under Antarctic ice sheet
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (539+ words) Scientists often complain that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the bedrock of the white landscape. " That advance recently. Using satellite data powered by the physics of ice itself, researchers have finally unmasked the…...
World’s first underwater desalination plant uses ocean pressure to halve energy use
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (621+ words) Explore The Most Powerful Tech Event in the World with Interesting Engineering. Stick with us as we share the highlights of CES week! In 2026, Norwegian startup Flocean is slated to launch the world's first demonstrator and commercial-scale subsea desalination plant…...
Ancient salt crystals shed light on Earth’s climate 1.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (548+ words) Tiny droplets of water and microscopic bubbles of gas trapped in crystals provide a perfect record of Earth's atmosphere for 1.4 billion years. Over a billion years ago, a shallow subtropical lake in what is now Canada slowly vanished under a…...
World’s deepest methane mounds found at 11,942 feet in Greenland Sea
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (454+ words) Deep beneath the icy crust of the Greenland Sea, a multinational team of scientists has stumbled upon a world that shouldn't exist. The ecosystem is called the Freya Hydrate Mounds." Perched 3,640 meters down on the Molloy Ridge, these mounds are…...