A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to where it is today at a rate of 12 miles per million years, scientists have ...

Regarding the ex-polar lands, compound hot-dry extremes prevail due to active land–atmosphere interactions. Specifically, a mid-tropospheric ridge initiates descending motions, creating clear-sky ...

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 ...

Spark curiosity with 29 exciting at-home science projects for kids! Fun, easy activities that teach science while keeping them happily busy. Teaching and keeping kids entertained simultaneously isn't ...

Scientists created a form of “super ice” that conducts electricity rather than simply freezing by compressing water under enormous pressure and bombarding it with powerful X-rays. This discovery ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on our ...