Warm water that seeps underneath can melt ice in way not yet included in models.
New Tipping Point Discovered Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
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To Foil a Deadly Pest, Scientists Aim for a Beetle-Resistant Ash Tree
The tree Radka Wildova and Jonathan Rosenthal wanted to show me was only a few hundred feet from the trail at Tivoli Bays, a state wildlife management area in Rhinebeck, New York. But getting to it required bushwhacking through a thicket of non-native honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and poison ivy.
Surprising Vortex Behind New Solar Cell and Lighting Materials
Metal-halide perovskites have quickly advanced in the last decade since their discovery as a semiconductor that outshines silicon in its conversion of light into electric current.
New Tomato, Potato Family Tree Shows that Fruit Color and Size Evolved Together
Fruits of Solanum plants, a group in the nightshade family, are incredibly diverse, ranging from sizable red tomatoes and purple eggplants to the poisonous green berries on potato plants.
A Hidden Treasure in the Milky Way – Astronomers Uncover Ultrabright X-Ray Source
Astronomers uncovered that a well-known X-ray binary, whose exact nature has been a mystery to scientists until now, is actually a hidden ultraluminous X-ray source.
Unexpected Diversity of Light-Sensing Proteins Goes Beyond Vision in Frogs
Frogs have maintained a surprising diversity of light-sensing proteins over evolutionary time, according to a new study led by a Penn State researcher.
