At night, let the sounds of live salsa music lead you to a festive watering hole and its house band. Lovely, low-rise Kyoto is the antidote to sprawling, daunting Tokyo. The city packs a big punch ...

The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

In the past, we all seemed to adhere to a "one big trip a year" type of schedule, but now, it's becoming more of an "everyone, everywhere, all at once" type of travel landscape. This is shaping up to ...

Scientists found this surreal underwater ecosystem after one of them spotted an unusual groove popping out of the Antarctic ...

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces. In the west of Dotson—which experiences cold, fast currents ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

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Ice loss from this sheet is projected to be the leading driver of sea level rise by 2100, yet its contribution remains highly uncertain. While sea levels are certain to rise this century, projections ...

Ice shelves in Antarctica ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet, but they’re shrinking due to climate change. Goldilock Project/Shutterstock It has also slowed the deepest ...