While analyzing core samples from an ancient Tibetan glacier, scientists found remnants of more than 1,700 viruses, most of which had never been seen before. As Ohio State University explained in ...

A dense layer of dust buried in the glacier reveals the tale of an ecological ... University drilled into the ice and pulled ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Using so-called seabed coring somewhat similar to the ice core drilling techniques used ... conditions such as freezing weather and glacier discharge could play a role, interestingly such ...

These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly deposited by ice. Examples of till deposits include drumlins, moraines and erratics. Fluvio-glacial ...

Well, scientists have such a time machine. It's called an ice core. Scientists collect ice cores by driving a hollow tube deep into the miles-thick ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland (and in ...

Underneath the glacier lies what scientists have modelled ... The data and discoveries, including tonnes of rock and ice core samples are being sent to labs across Australia, to be analysed ...