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Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the South Pole itself into a telescope that looks down through the entire planet to catch particles arriving from the other side of the sky
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (586+ words) Scientists have buried the world's most counterintuitive observatory two kilometers under Antarctic ice, where it peers through the entire planet to capture cosmic rays arriving from the opposite hemisphere. Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit Stand at the South Pole in…...
If West Antarctica's ice sheet collapsed, the U.S. East Coast would gain more than the coast nearest the ice — because the ice sheet's gravity pulls the ocean toward it
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (693+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 17, 2026 · How we edit Most of us picture melting ice like water filling a bathtub: the level rises evenly, everywhere. That picture is wrong. The real rise is uneven, shaped by gravity, Earth’s rotation…...
In a Norwegian cave in 2025, scientists found 75,000-year-old bones of polar bears, walruses, and bowhead whales — and the remains of a species of lemming now extinct in Europe that had never been found in Scandinavia before
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (918+ words) A 2025 PNAS study identified 46 vertebrate taxa in a northern Norwegian cave deposit, revealing a coastal Arctic community from roughly 85,000 to 71,000 years ago. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 15, 2026 · How we edit A limestone cave near Kjøpsvik in…...
Tibetans carry a Denisovan-like DNA segment around EPAS1 that is associated with lower hemoglobin at high altitude, showing how interbreeding with an extinct human population contributed to life on the plateau
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1020+ words) Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit At 4,000 meters above sea level, oxygen still makes up roughly the same share of the air as it does at the coast. The problem is pressure. Each breath contains fewer oxygen molecules, forcing the body…...
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole; an Antarctic seafloor core preserved its roots, pollen and spores beneath what is now a world of ice
1+ week, 1+ day ago (882+ words) Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit A dark layer inside a sediment core from the seabed off West Antarctica contained something that should feel impossible: a dense network of fossil roots, along with pollen and spores from a temperate rainforest that…...
In 2016, someone walking past a drying pond in Thailand noticed a few strange rocks. Ten years later, those 'rocks' turned out to be a 27-metre, 27-tonne dinosaur, the largest ever found in Southeast Asia
1+ week, 2+ day ago (831+ words) A decade-long puzzle from an accidental discovery in a shrinking Thai pond reveals how patience and cross-border collaboration can overturn assumptions about where Earth's giants once roamed. Published August 9, 2026 · How we edit A village pond in north-eastern Thailand shrank in…...
The boiling river of the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to cook small animals that fall in, reaching 86 degrees Celsius along a four-mile stretch with no volcano within 700 kilometres to explain where the heat is coming from
1+ week, 3+ day ago (830+ words) Scientists are baffled by a Peruvian river hot enough to kill animals instantly, with no geological explanation for its scorching temperatures. By Natural History · Edited by Justin Brown Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The oddity is not that a river…...
In 2006 researchers dredged a clam off the coast of Iceland and prised it open to count its growth rings, and only afterwards worked out what they had done — the animal had been alive since 1499, the oldest individual creature ever recorded
1+ week, 4+ day ago (491+ words) Published August 8, 2026 · How we edit The clam was one of about 200. It came up in a routine dredge off Iceland in 2006, part of a batch collected by a team from Bangor University for a project reconstructing centuries of ocean climate…...
The Pacific is the largest ocean on Earth, bigger than all the continents combined, and it is also the one that is slowly closing, consumed around its edges a little faster than its floor can spread
2+ week, 3+ day ago (635+ words) The Pacific Ocean is the largest single feature on the surface of the Earth. It is also, slowly, getting smaller. By Lachlan Brown · Editorial process Published August 1, 2026 The Pacific Ocean is the largest single feature on the surface of the…...
How did hunter-gatherers in southeastern Anatolia quarry, carve, and raise 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge, without metal tools or the wheel?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (510+ words) At Göbekli Tepe, hunter-gatherers raised 20-tonne T-shaped limestone pillars into ringed enclosures around 9600 BCE — 6,000 years before Stonehenge — using flint tools, wooden sledges, log rollers, ropes, and coordinated labour. Here is how the mechanics actually worked. By Science Blog Editorial Team…...