For decades, textbooks and science articles have pointed to the Indian Ocean as home to Earth’s deepest geoid low, the term scientists use for depressions in the planet’s gravity field. Pull up a ...

Antarctic ice cores revealed a hidden greenhouse effect that explains why some parts of Antarctica warm more dramatically ...

A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of ...

Gravity feels steady. You drop a set of keys, and they fall the same way every time. That reliability makes it tempting to picture Earth’s pull as uniform. It is not. After accounting for Earth’s ...

For decades, scientists watched with a measure of quiet puzzlement as Antarctic sea ice stubbornly resisted the warming ...

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A dip in Earth's gravity field beneath Antarctica is helping scientists track deep-Earth changes over tens of millions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

"We still don't have an explanation for what those anomalies are." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A cosmic particle detector has ...