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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.
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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animals

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Frozen For 6 Million Years, The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Is Like A Prehistoric Time Capsule Of EarthRaising the Foro Drill in Allan Hills, Antarctica during the 2022-2023 season.

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Frozen For 6 Million Years, The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Is Like A Prehistoric Time Capsule Of EarthRaising the Foro Drill in Allan Hills, Antarctica during the 2022-2023 season.
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Frozen For 6 Million Years, The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Is Like A Prehistoric Time Capsule Of Earth

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A Robot Sub Vanished Under Antarctica's Ice Without A Trace, But Scientists Have Found A SuccessorThis is the original Ran, working hard in Antarctica before its untimely demise in 2024.

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A Robot Sub Vanished Under Antarctica's Ice Without A Trace, But Scientists Have Found A SuccessorThis is the original Ran, working hard in Antarctica before its untimely demise in 2024.
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A Robot Sub Vanished Under Antarctica's Ice Without A Trace, But Scientists Have Found A Successor

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Unexpected Pink Boulders Found On Antarctic Mountain Peaks Reveal A Hidden Deep World BelowA pink granite boulder next to a yellow notebook for scale.

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Unexpected Pink Boulders Found On Antarctic Mountain Peaks Reveal A Hidden Deep World BelowA pink granite boulder next to a yellow notebook for scale.
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Unexpected Pink Boulders Found On Antarctic Mountain Peaks Reveal A Hidden Deep World Below

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Gaze Into The "Cauldron Of Death", A 50-Meter Ice Cone That Few Have Dared To ClimbIn winter, the base of the Helmcken Falls forms a 50-meter ice cone.

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Gaze Into The "Cauldron Of Death", A 50-Meter Ice Cone That Few Have Dared To ClimbIn winter, the base of the Helmcken Falls forms a 50-meter ice cone.
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Gaze Into The "Cauldron Of Death", A 50-Meter Ice Cone That Few Have Dared To Climb

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Scientists Drilled Into Antarctic Ice Until They Met Bedrock, Then Got A 228-Meter Sample Of SedimentThe sediment sample was obtained through a 52-centimeter (20-inch) hole that burrowed through the Antarctic ice.

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Scientists Drilled Into Antarctic Ice Until They Met Bedrock, Then Got A 228-Meter Sample Of SedimentThe sediment sample was obtained through a 52-centimeter (20-inch) hole that burrowed through the Antarctic ice.
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Scientists Drilled Into Antarctic Ice Until They Met Bedrock, Then Got A 228-Meter Sample Of Sediment

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Crack! Watch The Moment A 128-Kilometer Fissure Emerged In Ice Across Lake ErieSatellite imagery shows the crack occurring across Lake Erie between 14:00 and 18:00 UTC on February 8, 2026.

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Crack! Watch The Moment A 128-Kilometer Fissure Emerged In Ice Across Lake ErieSatellite imagery shows the crack occurring across Lake Erie between 14:00 and 18:00 UTC on February 8, 2026.
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Crack! Watch The Moment A 128-Kilometer Fissure Emerged In Ice Across Lake Erie

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Watch A Camera Descend Hundreds Of Meters Into An Ice Hole In Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier"Scientists used hot water to drill a borehole roughly 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep in Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica.

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Watch A Camera Descend Hundreds Of Meters Into An Ice Hole In Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier"Scientists used hot water to drill a borehole roughly 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) deep in Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica.
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Watch A Camera Descend Hundreds Of Meters Into An Ice Hole In Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier"

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What Are Nieves Penitentes? The Strange Icy Spikes Found In Some Of Earth’s Most Alien Landscapesnieves penitentes look like big white icy spikes against the blue sky

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What Are Nieves Penitentes? The Strange Icy Spikes Found In Some Of Earth’s Most Alien Landscapesnieves penitentes look like big white icy spikes against the blue sky
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What Are Nieves Penitentes? The Strange Icy Spikes Found In Some Of Earth’s Most Alien Landscapes

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Faraday’s Enigma Of Premelted Ice Finally Explained After 166 Yearswoman on frozen lake skating, wearing a black coat and yellow hat and scarf

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Faraday’s Enigma Of Premelted Ice Finally Explained After 166 Yearswoman on frozen lake skating, wearing a black coat and yellow hat and scarf
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Faraday’s Enigma Of Premelted Ice Finally Explained After 166 Years

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What Is Glaze Ice? The Strange (And Deadly) Frozen Phenomenon That Locks Plants Inside Iciclesa berry encased in glaze ice

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What Is Glaze Ice? The Strange (And Deadly) Frozen Phenomenon That Locks Plants Inside Iciclesa berry encased in glaze ice
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What Is Glaze Ice? The Strange (And Deadly) Frozen Phenomenon That Locks Plants Inside Icicles

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The Great Mountain Meltdown Is Coming: We Could Reach “Peak Glacier Extinction” By 2041An ice cave in the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland, The Alps

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The Great Mountain Meltdown Is Coming: We Could Reach “Peak Glacier Extinction” By 2041An ice cave in the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland, The Alps
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The Great Mountain Meltdown Is Coming: We Could Reach “Peak Glacier Extinction” By 2041

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What Happens When You Try To Freeze Oil? Because It Generally Doesn't Form An IceOil floating in a glass of water.

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What Happens When You Try To Freeze Oil? Because It Generally Doesn't Form An IceOil floating in a glass of water.
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What Happens When You Try To Freeze Oil? Because It Generally Doesn't Form An Ice

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Ice XXI: Scientists Discover A New Form Of Ice Born At Room Temperature Under Intense PressureA pair of diamond anvils inside the high-tech equipment used by the KRISS research team to generate the supercompressed state.

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Ice XXI: Scientists Discover A New Form Of Ice Born At Room Temperature Under Intense PressureA pair of diamond anvils inside the high-tech equipment used by the KRISS research team to generate the supercompressed state.
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Ice XXI: Scientists Discover A New Form Of Ice Born At Room Temperature Under Intense Pressure

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The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Contains Antarctic Air Bubbles From 6 Million Years AgoScientists yoinking out ice core samples in 2022-2023 from Allan Hills, Antarctica.

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The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Contains Antarctic Air Bubbles From 6 Million Years AgoScientists yoinking out ice core samples in 2022-2023 from Allan Hills, Antarctica.
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The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Contains Antarctic Air Bubbles From 6 Million Years Ago

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