Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
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Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Seneca thought the use of ice was a "true fever of the most malignant kind."
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
There may be more energy in methane hydrates than in all the world’s oil, coal, and gas combined. It could be the perfect "bridge fuel" to a clean energy future.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
While Saturn and its moons all appear faint and cloudy to JWST, Saturn's rings are the star of the show. Here's the big scientific reason.
A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.
The problem of the electroweak horizon haunts the standard model of cosmology and beckons us to ask how deep a rethink the model may need.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
Europa may be difficult to access. But if a recent study is correct, its subsurface ocean would be more accessible than previously thought.
The rewards price to get a free cup of hot coffee at Starbucks is going up.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here's what's known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
The "Clovis First" hypothesis for human settlement of North and South America has just been debunked. Where do we go from here?
A famous explorer's doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
Data from the Zhurong rover suggests the Red Planet was wet more recently than we thought.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys."