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more about #glaciers more comments → Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: After this past week's Primeval with its Mold men I'll say pass on this idea. more » twophrasebark: What does it taste like? more » Rasselas: I see no possible way in which this could go wr-URK! more » Grey_Area: This is a remake of Smilla's Sense of Snow, isn't it? more » GreyHammer: there are so many movies that involve NOT DOING THIS. there is also a great x files episode... why... why science?! more » bluehinter: What part of "No touch pod" didn't you understand? more » -
#lifeonice
Scientists Play "Jurassic Park," Coax Ancient Glacial Bacteria Back To Life
Scientists at Pennsylvania State University resurrected glacial bacteria that had been buried for 120,000 years, raising hopes that if there was ever life on Mars, we might be able to re-animate it, too. More » -
#climatedisaster
Watch the Petermann Crack Get Bigger
Look I know it's horrifying that this past July saw the further disintegration of Greenland's enormous, floating Petermann Glacier, with about 11 square miles of ice crumbling off. In fact, new satellite images show that right now the entire glacier is literally breaking in half, thus speeding up the general trend towards an iceless Arctic Ocean, rising waters, and accelerated climate change. But you have to admit that there's a terrible beauty in seeing 60-square-mile hunks of ice cracking open. Below, an animation shows the crack widening. More »
