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Antarctica
Antarctica is the southernmost continent in the world and the location of the South Pole. Uninhabited by humans and covered in ice, it is the coldest and driest continent and contains most of the world's ice.
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APR 23, 2018Earth & The Environment
Grasslands cover about a quarter of the world’s land and are the most agriculturally important biome. Though they ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 18, 2018Space & Astronomy
A meteorite that landed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan almost a decade ago appears to be stirring up quite a bit of atten ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 13, 2018Earth & The Environment
What happens when the ocean doesn’t circulate as it should? Though you might not realize it, the natural circulati ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 05, 2018Chemistry & Physics
Physicists have long pondered the question: why is our universe made mostly of matter but not antimatter? Theoretically, ...Written By: Daniel DuanAPR 03, 2018Chemistry & Physics
Sometimes considered as the "Plan B" for solving the climate change problem, carbon sequestration is the proce ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 04, 2018Earth & The Environment
You might think that we pretty much have all the penguin colonies in the world accounted for already. After all, most co ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 01, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Neutrinos are one of the most plentiful yet elusive fundamental particles out there. They are close to the more familiar ...Written By: Daniel DuanNOV 08, 2017Earth & The Environment
There is now more evidence that a still undiscovered geothermal mantle plume sits beneath Antarctica, acting as a heat s ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 06, 2017Earth & The Environment
Good news from NASA, everyone! Measurements from satellites this past year showed that the hole in Earth's ozone lay ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 04, 2017Earth & The Environment
Thirteen US federal agencies have come together to detail the most comprehensive report on climate change ever. Four hun ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 22, 2017Videos
Spiders are incredibly diverse, and there are tons of them. It's estimated that 90,000 species exist on every continent ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 swooped ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 01, 2017Earth & The Environment
Until recently, the katabatic winds that blow from the interior of Antarctica to its coastal regions were an enigma to s ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 22, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA launched its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mis ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2017Earth & The Environment
A recent paper published in Nature illuminates key findings regarding human-caused methane emissions. Scientists from th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 23, 2017Microbiology
Scientists have discovered a mechanism used by microbes that live in salty lakes in Antarctica to aid growth and surviva ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 23, 2017Space & Astronomy
We know; you’re probably sick and tired of hearing about The Great American Solar Eclipse by now, especially since ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 20, 2017Earth & The Environment
Ever since the Larsen C ice sheet in West Antarctica separated from the mainland several weeks ago, nerves have been hig ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
While NASA and other space scientists have known about the presence of cosmic rays for ages, that’s not to say tha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 26, 2017Videos
So imagine, in the midst of Antarctica, there's a gushing area of blood-red liquid coming out of the ice. Well, it's not ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 12, 2017Earth & The Environment
The Larsen C ice shelf has been flirting with dismantlement from Western Antarctica for months now, and in the last few ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 24, 2017Earth & The Environment
A study recently published in the journal Nature Communications reports that a two-week warm spell in January 2016 cause ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 21, 2017Earth & The Environment
Today at 12:24 am (Eastern Standard Time) those of us in the Northern Hemisphere experienced the summer solstice, otherw ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 23, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Grasslands cover about a quarter of the world’s land and are the most agriculturally important biome. Though they
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 18, 2018
Space & Astronomy
A meteorite that landed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan almost a decade ago appears to be stirring up quite a bit of atten
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 13, 2018
Earth & The Environment
What happens when the ocean doesn’t circulate as it should? Though you might not realize it, the natural circulati
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 05, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Physicists have long pondered the question: why is our universe made mostly of matter but not antimatter? Theoretically,
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
APR 03, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Sometimes considered as the "Plan B" for solving the climate change problem, carbon sequestration is the proce
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 04, 2018
Earth & The Environment
You might think that we pretty much have all the penguin colonies in the world accounted for already. After all, most co
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 01, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Neutrinos are one of the most plentiful yet elusive fundamental particles out there. They are close to the more familiar
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 08, 2017
Earth & The Environment
There is now more evidence that a still undiscovered geothermal mantle plume sits beneath Antarctica, acting as a heat s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 06, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Good news from NASA, everyone! Measurements from satellites this past year showed that the hole in Earth's ozone lay
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 04, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Thirteen US federal agencies have come together to detail the most comprehensive report on climate change ever. Four hun
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 22, 2017
Videos
Spiders are incredibly diverse, and there are tons of them. It's estimated that 90,000 species exist on every continent
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers watched and waited at approximately 1:42 A.M. Eastern time on Thursday morning as asteroid 2012 TC4 swooped
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Until recently, the katabatic winds that blow from the interior of Antarctica to its coastal regions were an enigma to s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 22, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA launched its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mis
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A recent paper published in Nature illuminates key findings regarding human-caused methane emissions. Scientists from th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 23, 2017
Microbiology
Scientists have discovered a mechanism used by microbes that live in salty lakes in Antarctica to aid growth and surviva
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 23, 2017
Space & Astronomy
We know; you’re probably sick and tired of hearing about The Great American Solar Eclipse by now, especially since
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 20, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Ever since the Larsen C ice sheet in West Antarctica separated from the mainland several weeks ago, nerves have been hig
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While NASA and other space scientists have known about the presence of cosmic rays for ages, that’s not to say tha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 26, 2017
Videos
So imagine, in the midst of Antarctica, there's a gushing area of blood-red liquid coming out of the ice. Well, it's not
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 12, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The Larsen C ice shelf has been flirting with dismantlement from Western Antarctica for months now, and in the last few
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 24, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A study recently published in the journal Nature Communications reports that a two-week warm spell in January 2016 cause
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 21, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Today at 12:24 am (Eastern Standard Time) those of us in the Northern Hemisphere experienced the summer solstice, otherw
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan