The study authors say this is down to the Ekman transport, where water moves at right angles to the direction of the wind.
Researchers have found giant viruses on Greenland's ice that might control the darkening and melting of Arctic ice by ...
We knew there had to be rivers when parts of Antarctica were ice-free, but now the extent and timing of one has been revealed ...
Lurking in the snow and frost of Greenland’s ice sheet, mysterious giant viruses has been discovered. They share the ice with ...
The mystery behind a strange, unexplained object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea – which many suspected was a UFO – may have finally been solved. The object is thought to be over 140,000 years ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...
In climates cold enough to freeze, you never know what is hidden underneath the ice. For countless years, humans have been making mind-blowing discoveries by digging into the frozen tundra. Some of ...
Archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s largest collections of ancient art, showing giants and monsters walking the Earth. In a remote area of South America, a British-led research ...
Last summer, I wrote about a very interesting fish, showing up in the Gulf of Maine and promised an update. Well, here it is. We nicknamed it a “coddock” due to its strange shape and coloration.
The following are a few highlights—a mere whisper of all that the cities have to offer—but it’s a good place to start if ...
The object, estimated to be over 140,000 years old, has for years left people puzzled as to what it is, or how it got there - with many assuming it was a crashed UFO The object was thought to be ...