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Following Donald Trump’s departure from the White House and his removal from Twitter, he lost the ability to instantly inject misinformation into the news cycle. In light of this, one high-profile Republican has thoughtfully taken up the mantle. In recent weeks Senator Ron Johnson has waded into increasingly conspiratorial waters,…

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Andrew Christ remembers the day he became part of “this 60-year, weird, wild Cold War story.” It was 2019, and the University of Vermont researcher was just four days away from defending his dissertation. He…

Eight decades after the writer H.P. Lovecraft died of intestinal cancer, having published in his lifetime only one book, riddled with printing errors, his name appeared on billboards throughout the United States. Promoting the HBO show Lovecraft Country, the advertisements seemed to suggest that Lovecraft, who died in 1937 in…

The NASA-funded Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) performed well in seismic experiments conducted in snowy summer Greenland, according to a new study by the SIIOS team led by the University of Arizona published this week in Seismological Research Letters. SIIOS could be a part of proposed NASA…

The deep ice at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland entirely melted at least once within the last million years and was covered with vegetation, including moss and perhaps trees, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Understanding the history of the Greenland Ice…

An Arctic walrus found itself thousands of miles from home this weekend off the coast of Ireland. Marine biologists agree the walrus is likely quite young based on the size of its tusks. One expert theorized the animal drifted far from home after falling asleep on an iceberg  See more…

Home News Greenland's ice sheet may have disappeared far more recently than once thought, enabling plants and trees to thrive. (Image credit: Joshua Brown/UVM) Frozen soil that was collected in Greenland during the Cold War by a secret military operation hid another secret: buried fossils that could be a million…

In 1966, US Army scientists drilled down through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland -- and pulled up a fifteen-foot-long tube of dirt from the bottom. Then this frozen sediment was lost in a freezer for decades. It was accidentally rediscovered in 2017. In 2019, University of Vermont…

Most of Greenland is covered with ice today. But a new study shows that within the last million years it melted off and became covered with green tundra, perhaps like this view of eastern Greenland, on the coast near the ocean. The research provides strong evidence that Greenland is more…

During the earth formation, some catastrophic impacts took place that would have generated enough energy to melt our planet’s interior. Be that as it may, we don’t think a lot about this distant and fiery period of Earth’s history because the tectonic process has reused practically all rocks older than…