Photo taken on Nov. 29, 2018 shows penguins on drift ice as seen by the Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong, also known as Snow Dragon, in an area of drift ice in the Southern Ocean. The icebreaker is part of China’s 35th Antarctic Research Expedition. Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Antarctic … Read more
An artist composition of the Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue). | Credits: IceCube Collaboration/US National Science Foundation (NSF) (Lily Le and Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier). The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos. The groundbreaking image is the first of its kind and provides critical evidence … Read more
Something strange is happening to Antarctic sea ice. The areal expanse of drift ice surrounding the continent is not only at an all-time low for this time of year, surpassing a record just set in 2022, but ice extent has reached all-time lows throughout the year. What happened here is different than the Arctic sea … Read more
