Environment
'Antarctica's seemingly impregnable ice sheet is melting from below'
Climate and ocean experts point to signs that even Earth's vast polar ice sheet has its limits, and that limit is shrinking.
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Environment
Warning: Earth rotates more slowly as polar ice melts
Researchers predict that in the next few years, every person in this world will lose 1 second of their daily time.
Oceanography
The strange way of 'taking care of children' of giant sea spiders
Giant Antarctic sea spiders have different biological characteristics from regular sea spiders, and their way of giving birth and incubating eggs is also very different.
New technology
Startup Polar Night Energy builds the world's largest sand battery
The sand battery designed by startup Polar Night Energy will be built over the next 13 months in Pornainen, Finland to meet year-round heating demand.
Environment
Proposing 2 'utopian' initiatives to 'save' the polar ice sheet, at first glance everyone thought it was a fantasy
Climate change is threatening the permafrost at the global poles, and if the situation does not change, melting ice and rising sea levels will seriously threaten life on…
Discover science
Explore Ny-Alesund: The Cleanest Town in the World
The town of Ny-Alesund on the island of Spitsbergen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, is likened to the cleanest air in the world.
Animal world
New polar bear population discovered in Greenland
A distinct and genetically isolated population of polar bears has been recorded in southeastern Greenland.
Biology
Discovered many types of bacteria containing antibiotic resistance genes in Antarctica
Antarctic bacteria contain genes that give them natural antibiotic and antibiotic resistance, and the ability to spread beyond the polar regions.
Scientific application
Take inspiration from polar bears to create a one-of-a-kind shelter
Students at the Royal Danish Academy drew inspiration from polar bears to design a shelter to help people in distress cope with the harsh snow and ice conditions.
Space science
The difference between the three polar holes in the universe: Black holes have been discovered, so where are white holes and wormholes?
So far, there has been a lot of evidence to show that black holes really exist, even in reality, but white holes and wormholes still exist only in theory.
Animal world
Strange life in the 'polar bear capital'
The small, cold town of Churchill, with difficult access in Canada, is known as the 'polar bear capital', an attractive place that attracts many adventurous tourists.
Animal world
Can polar bears survive in Antarctica?
Many have cited the difference between the South Pole and the North Pole to demonstrate that polar bears are unsuited to the environmental conditions of Antarctica.
Discover science
Strange phenomenon in South America: Earth is about to reverse?
Many satellites and spacecraft have been troubled by the anomalous change of the Earth's magnetic field, which could signal a repetition of the geostational phenomenon f…
Conquer Mars
In order to bombard Mars, Elon Musk must have 10,000 nuclear warheads
The CEO of Russia's long-term space science program Roscosmos spoke out of Mr. Elon Musk's idea.
Environment
Why did the Arctic ozone hole just suddenly close?
There is a reason and has determined it, but science is still not exhaustive as to why ozone-depleting factors are particularly strong in the first months of this year.