A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice lies a system of lakes and watercourses. A research team, including ETH researchers, has for ...

In frozen polar seas, light barely penetrates. The ice caps reflect a significant portion of solar radiation due to their white color. They also absorb and diffuse a continuum of colors more ...

Several human pathogens exploit the kinetic forces generated by polymerizing actin to power their intracellular motility. Human cell-autonomous immune responses activate ...

The sustained warmth resulted in no polar ice caps, high sea levels and flooded continents. The geographic distribution of land masses was also very different back then. The supercontinent ...

Loss of Sea Ice Alters the Colors of Light in the Ocean May 2, 2025 — The disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to ... break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the ...

Researchers searched for algae in samples from 198 locations in the Robert Island ice cap in Antarctica. Credit: Alex Thomson Alex Thomson, an algal ecologist with the Scottish Association for ...

You'll be familiar with reports over the years warning about the increasing likelihood of our polar ice caps melting due to global warming — but what would actually happen if all the Arctic and ...