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Antarctica Is Hiding a Terrifying Secret. It Could Put the World at Risk. - AOL.com

Antarctica Is Hiding a Terrifying Secret. It Could Put the World at Risk. - AOL.com

A study found that channels beneath ice sheets could trap warm water and accelerate the ice’s deterioration.

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material - WIRED

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material - WIRED

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab.

Saturn's rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they'll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all - Space Daily

Saturn's rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they'll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all - Space Daily

The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according to the team led by James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, loses an amount of water from its rings every half hour that would fill on…

650-foot mega-tsunami is captured by satellites and sends seismic waves around the world for nine days - Earth.com

650-foot mega-tsunami is captured by satellites and sends seismic waves around the world for nine days - Earth.com

Over 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a 650-foot-high mega-tsunami

Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasite - Space Daily

Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasite - Space Daily

The Greenland shark has become a fixture of popular science writing in the way of a small number of charismatic creatures: the immortal jellyfish, the deep-sea tube worm, the bristlecone pine. The story arrives in roughly the same shape each time it is told. …

Dark Matter May Have Been Detected by Accident, Scientists Reveal - ScienceAlert

Dark Matter May Have Been Detected by Accident, Scientists Reveal - ScienceAlert

We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019.

Mysterious fault’s quake brakes may hold secret to stopping tremors: Study - New York Post

Mysterious fault’s quake brakes may hold secret to stopping tremors: Study - New York Post

Whose fault is it?

Meet The Axolotl — The Salamander That Can Regrow Its Own Brain - Forbes

Meet The Axolotl — The Salamander That Can Regrow Its Own Brain - Forbes

The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain regeneration.

North America poised for light display of aurora borealis - NPR

North America poised for light display of aurora borealis - NPR

The splashy nighttime phenomenon will be best observed on Saturday and Sunday nights