Usually, when an ice cube crashes, collides, and grinds against another ice cube, it produces sounds like a thud, a clang, or a clunk. But when John Andrew Higgins (@blueicehiggins) dropped down a ...

As the camera went deeper, the color of the ice transitioned from blue to a diamond-like white.

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years. The sample extended so deep that ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...

An ice core drilled by a research team is displayed at Little Dome C field base in eastern Antarctica, during the cutting phase on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (PNRA/IPEV Beyond Epica via AP) An ...

A research team coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Isp) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice has successfully extracted deep ice cores from ...

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An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they say is at least 1 ...