The science experimenters at TKOR show how to turn soda into icy slush by using dry ice to rapidly chill and carbonate the ...

Don Juan Pond is a mysterious lake in Antarctica that contains so much calcium chloride, it doesn't freeze in subzero ...

Squeals and giggles bubbled from the kids' room at the Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library Saturday as Carl Carlson of Mad Science sprayed fog over children's heads. During the work week Carlson is a ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instruments aboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ...

In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that ...

Although the term ‘dry ice’ is generally used for solid CO2, it’s much more accurate to call this ‘dry snow’, as, rather than ...

For years, scientists have warned that melting Antarctic ice could push sea levels dangerously higher by the end of this ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme climate events in Earth’s history. Beginning around 717 million years ago ...

As more rain is concentrated in heavier storms, many parts of California and the western U.S. are drying, new research shows.

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, ...