Researchers in Antarctica have been working hard to find the answer to a critical question that will help us make more-effective predictive climate models, and the science behind the mission is ...

SEATTLE – While studying how the Earth’s air cleans itself, one researcher made a viral discovery: the sound a piece of ice makes when dropped down a 90-meter-deep Antarctic glacier borehole. It’s ...

A video of scientists dropping ice into a really deep hole has gone viral because of the wobbly cartoon-spaceship sound the falling ice makes. Princeton University geochemist John Andrew Higgins ...

As it clatters down a 300-foot ice hole, a small fragment of ice reverberates, producing a series of unusual sounds. First a clang, then the distinct pew of a cartoon gun, and finally a thumping heart ...