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This American university wants to discover Antarctica's oldest ice to find out what happens when Earth gets warmer
The Oregon State University will lead a National Science Foundation-funded effort to discover Antar…
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A pandora's box of 28 ancient viruses are trapped in glaciers — and climate change could set them free
The best-case scenario is despite the melting ice, the viruses won't activate. Even so, it wou…
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Scientists finally finished mapping Earth's 8th continent Zealandia, helping them solve the lost continent's mysterious history
The huge landmassl, Zealandia, sits East of Australia. It's been lost underwater for millennia. Sci…
Jenny McGrath,Marianne Guenot
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The world's oldest asteroid struck Earth 2.2 billion years ago triggering one of the first global warming episodes in history
The world’s oldest asteroid struck 2.2 billion years ago and it might have been the reason why the …
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Why the melting of the Arctic ice matters to India
The Arctic has experienced two to four times faster temperature increases than the rest of the worl…
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The planet lost more Arctic sea ice than the area of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh combined in 2021
Every year, sea ice regrows during the winter months to recuperate what was lost during the summ…
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In a single month, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen the oldest galaxies, messy cosmic collisions, and a hot gas planet's atmosphere
In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Scientists pinpointed the oldest meteor crater ever found. When the space rock struck Australia 2.2 billion years ago, it ended a global ice age.
"Often times it seems that the impact has to hit the Earth in a spot that is fairly unique for it t…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists revived a tiny worm-like animal after 24,000 years frozen in Siberian ice. It was still able to eat and reproduce.
The findings could provide clues into how to better freeze multicellular tissues like human organs,…
Marianne Guenot
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Archaeologists figured out that some of the world's oldest cave drawings don't just depict animals - they're constellations of stars
A particularly notable cave painting that the researchers studied was southern France's Lascaux Sha…
Jennifer Nguyen
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An engineer has devised a way to stop Arctic ice from melting by scattering millions of tiny glass beads to reflect sunlight away
In 1979, Arctic sea ice spanned about 2.7 million square miles (7 million square kilometers). By la…
Aylin Woodward
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Ancient viruses are being unearthed in ice - and they could help solve a big mystery about what makes us sick
Deep in the lakes of a group of rocky, coastal islands near the south pole, the researchers uncover…
Erin Brodwin
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I work on the world's largest residential yacht that's like the Four Seasons on steroids. Some guests have lived on it for over 20 years.
The general manager of "The World," the largest private residential yacht on earth, describes it as…
Claire Turrell
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What you'll encounter if you try to climb K2, the King of Mountains that terrifies even the most experienced of climbers
On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 in a single day. Here's what a typical journey …
Matthew Loh
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We took our 3 kids under 5 on a plane. It's hard, but the memories are forever.
The author shares how she took her three kids under the age of 5 to Florida, and how the memories w…
Jenna Jonaitis
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Asteroids contain metals worth quintillions of dollars — but mining them won’t necessarily make your richer than Bezos or Musk
There are over a million asteroids that are being tracked by astronomers, and getting your hands on…
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12 epic sites to visit if you were a tourist on Mars, where canyons are deeper than the Grand Canyon
Next stop, Iani Chaos. Now, this is one type of terrain you won't find anywhere on Earth. It's a ma…
Nathaniel Lee,Shira Polan
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An Indian state just made history, literally
And it’s just not Meghalaya on its own. The entire Holocene epoch has been sub-divided into th…
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Alien life may have had billions of years to brew inside Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
"This could be good news for the astrobiological potential of Enceladus's ocean," Kevin Hand, a pla…
Dave Mosher
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A just-discovered, 90 million year-old bird could help us predict the future of the planet
"Before our fossil, people were suggesting that it was warm, but you still would have had seasonal …