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Can you guesstimate how old antarctic ice sheets are? Well, Steven D. Emslie has. The North Carolina university professor uses a particular species of penguins and radio carbon dating methods to determine the age of the Antarctic ice sheets. The...
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There are millions of concept car and vehicle designs out there and with each passing day the number seems only to grow. So when you hear about another concept vehicle...
made popular Aug 14 2008
With all the inhabitable zones progressing to newer heights in terms of technology, the uninhabitable corners of our globe too gets a taste of avant-garde achievements...
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Washington
Bitter cold and floating sea ice long frustrated scientists seeking to study the ocean around Antarctica in winter. The solution: Send in the seals.
made popular Aug 11 2008
Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica, according to scientists who have recovered remains of life from that frozen...
made popular Aug 6 2008
The fossils of plants and animals high in the mountains is an extremely rare find in the continent, one that also gives a glimpse of a what could be there in a century...
made popular Aug 5 2008
The continual shifting of continents has led to the theories that, as in the cases of Pangaea and Rodinia, many, if not all of our continents, were at one time or...
made popular Jul 24 2008
AP, Rio De Janeiro
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro’s tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin...
made popular Jul 18 2008
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space...
made popular Jul 11 2008
The earthquake problems afflicting places like California and Japan are nothing in comparison to those experienced daily in Antarctica. A seismologist at Washington...
made popular Jun 6 2008
Scientists of Georgia Tech have come up with Snomote - a two foot small, fast and agile robot to explore the deep secrets of the unknown Antarctica, especially the...
made popular May 30 2008
AP, Atlanta
Robotic rovers have patrolled deep space and the deepest seas, but scientists are still struggling to create drones that can overcome the multiple challenges of...
made popular May 29 2008
Buried beneath several miles of ice in Antarctica are lakes ranging in size from Lake Ontario to lakes the size of Manhattan. Lake Vostok, the largest subglacial lake...
made popular May 11 2008
It is really interesting that some people think the ‘dark matter’ is the modern equivalence to ether of the early 1900’s and could be proved non-existent. While I...
made popular Apr 7 2008
From krill to king crabs, the collapse of a 160-square-mile portion of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica could mean many changes for wildlife at the bottom of the...
made popular Mar 31 2008
WASHINGTON: A chunk of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan Island has suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, according...
made popular Mar 27 2008
The ghast realities of global warming were splendidly picturized in the movie ‘The Day After tomorrow’. But the sad thing is we 6 billion individuals on...
made popular Mar 26 2008
AP, Washington
A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of Manhattan has suddenly collapsed, putting an even larger glacial area at risk.Satellite images show the runaway...
made popular Mar 25 2008
AP, Sydney
Activists who have clashed violently with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters in recent months were headed back to port Tuesday because they were running out of...
made popular Mar 11 2008
AP, Tokyo
Anti-whaling activists hurled containers of rotten butter at a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters Monday, lightly injuring several crewmembers, Japan’s...
made popular Mar 3 2008
AP, Montevideo
Venezuelan scientists and military officers reached the Antarctica after a 15-day trip, opening the South American nation’s first expedition to the frozen...
made popular Mar 1 2008
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