Scientists prepare to drill multi-million-year-old ice in Antarctica | Science

[ad_1] Antarctic ice ages millions of years may contain crucial information about the planet's past and help predict climate. And scientists from Australia's Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) are about to find out. On Monday, they unveiled a drill designed to reach three kilometers below the surface of the frozen continent. "What we will be doing … Read more

Microplastics in the Great Lakes: Becoming Benthic

[ad_1] Microplastic Granules from the Great Lakes Study. The pellet study consisted of sampling 66 beaches in each Great Lake over a two-week period in October 2018, for a total of 12,974 pellets on 660 square meters of beach. Credit: Patricia Corcoran From the dump of the Great Pacific to the interior rivers, plastics are … Read more

A gigantic Chinese telescope opens to astronomers around the world

[ad_1] FAST will make extremely sensitive measurements of astronomical phenomena.Credit: Ou Dongqu / Xinhua / ZUMA The world's largest satellite dish radio observatory is preparing to open up to astronomers around the world, ushering in a new era of extremely delicate observations that could help in the search for gravitational and gravitational waves. to the … Read more

Method of manufacturing ductile glass discovered

[ad_1] Plasticity supports (the five-fold silicon shown here) are formed in contact with silica nanoparticles under extreme pressure, en route to a completely dense ductile silica glass. Source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute If you have already dropped your smartphone on a concrete floor, you know that you feel dreaded when you flip it over to see … Read more

Jellyfish thrive in the artificial disruption of the oceans

[ad_1] Jellyfish breed at a much higher rate than before, thanks to changes in their environment caused by human activity Thousands of them invade our beaches to the horror of vacationers who dread their bite, but thanks to the disruption of the oceans by humans, jellyfish thrive. Jellyfish have been on Earth for longer than … Read more