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Scientists make alarming discovery in samples from last Ice Age: 'You can't model the future unless you understand what happened'

Studies of historic ice sheets, such as Kelley and Jackson's, allow researchers to learn what caused them to collapse. Ice ...

Arctic explorers makes stunning discovery while crossing ice sheet: 'There is a lot'

Explorers who crossed the Greenland ice sheet this season reported encountering rivers of meltwater and unstable snowpack, ...

A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet

New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in ...

Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest ...

This is the oldest blue pigment ever discovered in Europe

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues ...

A chilling discovery: The surprising flexibility of ice at the nanoscale

You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries.

Ancient rock art in Saudi Arabia hints at how humans repopulated desert at end of last ice age

Three newly discovered sites filled with art and stone tools have pushed back the date of when humans returned to Arabia ...

Ice XXI: Scientists use X-ray laser to identify new room-temperature phase

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to exist in more than 20 different solid forms or phases that differ in the ...