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How life endured the Snowball Earth: Evidence from Antarctic meltwater ponds

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted…

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Impossible signal from deep beneath Antarctic ice baffles physicists

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle…

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Watch the mesmerizing first-ever footage of a rare Antarctic squid

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Oceanographers on an excursion in the…

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Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a…

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Internal clocks determine the ups and downs of Antarctic krill

Individually, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) do not make much of an impression. With a maximum body length of six centimetres,…

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Melting Antarctic ice sheets will slow Earth’s strongest ocean current

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting…

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Antarctic fast ice secrets | ScienceDaily

University of Otago — Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the…

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