News tagged with ice formation

Frozen comet had a watery past, scientists find

For the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence for the presence of liquid water in a comet, shattering the current paradigm that comets never get warm enough to melt the ice that makes up the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Early initiation of Arctic sea-ice formation

Significant sea ice formation occurred in the Arctic earlier than previously thought is the conclusion of a study published this week in Nature. "The results are also especially exciting because they suggest that sea ice fo ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The water reservoir in a young planetary system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers once thought that the process of star formation was more-or-less controlled by the simple coalescence of material by gravity, leading eventually to a new star. But they have come ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Some Antarctic ice is forming from bottom

Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as half the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The secret life of water at very low temperatures

The secret life of water just got weirder. For years water has been known to exist in 15 phases -- not just the merry threesome of solid, liquid and gas from grade school science. Now, University of Utah chemists ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies

University of Arkansas researchers have used chemistry and geology to create a model that may explain the mystery of how modern-day gullies form on the surface of Mars.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Declining sea ice to lead to cloudier Arctic: study

Arctic sea ice has been declining over the past several decades as global climate has warmed. In fact, sea ice has declined more quickly than many models predicted, indicating that climate models may not be correctly representing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0