The $23 million Tara Polar Station will be the home of a team of 18 people made up of scientists, artists, physicians, ...

It is that time of the year, and I know it may be hard for the educators out there to keep the excitement level up in the classroom. Not just the young minds, but ours also tend to wander to the windo ...

Scientific, economic, and practical factors should be considered when choosing between the frozen state and lyophilization.

The arrow of time isn’t a mysterious force; it follows the science of entropy. Understanding entropy helps engineers in ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

Now, a new solution is being presented by Seward High School Student Hannah Leatherman, who won the “Caring for the Kenai” ...

The eta Aquariid meteor shower, a dazzling celestial event linked to Halley's Comet, is reaching its peak. This annual spectacle offers stargazers a rare opportunity to witness fragments of the famous ...

The Arctic is changing – and not just in the ways you might think. Once covered in thick, bright sea ice, the region is now ...

As global warming melts more sea ice in the polar regions, the light that enters the ocean is not just increasing in ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

This is what gives the ocean its blue color. Molecular vibrations of water Another key difference between ice and liquid water lies in the role of molecular vibrations. In liquid water, H₂O molecules ...