Scientists in the Antarctic have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice—drilling down 1.7 miles for ice samples a ...

A team of scientists have drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ...

Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages ...

Scientists have successfully drilled an ice core in Antarctica nearly 1.2 million years old, reaching 2.8 kilometers deep. Analysis of this core is expected to reveal insights into how Earth's ...

The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 ... Both Barbante and Scoto said that thanks to the analysis of the ice core of the previous Epica campaign they have assessed that ...

The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 ... Both Barbante and Scoto said that thanks to the analysis of the ice core of the previous Epica campaign they have assessed that ...

By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface, the team has pulled a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic bedrock. The gases trapped in the core are expected to yield "high-resolution ...

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Last week, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) began the pilot drill for the Million Year Ice Core Project (MYIC), a ...

Led by The Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (ISP-CNR), the scientists worked for more than 200 days, drilling into the ice and processing the ice core at a remote ...

In this edition of the Science for All newsletter, Priyali Prakash writes on a 1.2-million-year-old ice core in Antarctica ...