Unusual radio signals from beneath Antarctica’s ice continue to defy explanation. Several years ago, scientists using a ...

High above the frozen wilderness of Antarctica, a NASA balloon has picked up signals that challenge our understanding of the ...

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Meet ice XXI, a bizarre phase that forms at room temperature, under extreme pressure. Ice XXI is ...

"In spring, this ice begins to warm up and sublimate. The last remnants of this ice are located on the shaded side of the dune tops, and that is where the blocks break off from once the temperature is ...

Silver iodide is the material of choice to make clouds release rain and snow. For decades, its remarkable ability to trigger precipitation has been used in cloud seeding to prevent hail damage and ...

Ice comes in many phases (about twenty, to be exact), and scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) just discovered a new one called “Ice XXI.” To study this new ...

The impact of water expulsion into the open ocean from formerly ice-covered areas means that sea levels will change ...

China's 42nd Antarctic expedition aims to conduct groundbreaking drilling experiments to explore the continent's natural resources and evolution.