Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, they found proof of a Moon cave hiding in plain sight. The cave is inside...

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Hidden Passageways Under the Moon’s Surface

Editor's note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022. It has since been updated. Even as activists continue to face opposition—and even disdain—from climate deniers for attempting to raise awareness about the danger our planet is in, mounting scientific data shows that the world's ice is melting at a rapid pace. According to a study published earlier in 2021, global ice loss has increased rapidly over the past two decades, soaring from about 760 billion tons per year in the 1990s to more than 1.2 trillion tons per year in the 2010s. Meanwhile, a second, NASA-backed study on the Greenland ice sheet found that at least 74 major glaciers that terminate in deep, warming ocean waters are being severely undercut and weakened.

What would the Earth look like if all the ice melted? The answer is terrifying.

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Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world.It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex.Researchers are constantly encountering lost landmasses that constitute important pieces in the puzzle of our planet’s geological past.Now, a whole new continent has been found lurking beneath the icy waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean.The discovery was made around the Davis Strait, a large stretch of water located between Canada’s Baffin Island and Greenland.The strait was formed millions of years ago when the tectonic plates between the two islands shifted, reconfiguring the...

Scientists have just discovered a brand new continent

Sunlight-photosynthesizing organisms like plants and algae have long been believed to be the Earth's original producers of oxygen. But now, researchers have found evidence of a natural O2 factory that needs neither the Sun nor the lifeforms that harness its power. The source is a chemical reaction taking place in rocks lying on the lightless seafloor thousands of feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, releasing what the researchers have dubbed "dark oxygen."

Scientists Say They've Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

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An unmanned submarine conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of the underside of an Antarctic glacier.

Drone submarine finds mysterious 1,300-ft-long structures under Antarctic ice

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia was constructed as far back as 25,000 BC – though there has since been doubts as to whether the structure was ever man-made at all.In research led by Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the academics write that “the pyramid’s core consists of meticulously sculpted massive andesite lava” and that the “oldest construction” element of...

'World’s oldest pyramid' built 25,000 years ago was not made by humans, archaeologists claim

Strange structures up to 1,300 feet (around 400 metres) long have been discovered deep beneath the ice in Antarctica.The never-before-seen shapes were uncovered when a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dove 10 miles (17 kilometres) below the Dotson Ice Shelf, in the west of the continent, and travelled more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometres) along the underside of the ice, Live Science reports.The Dotson Ice Shelf is a 30-mile-wide (50 kilometre) chunk of floating ice which is seven times the size of New York City.It is part of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which is home to glaciers that are breaking...

Stunning giant structures found lurking beneath Antarctic ice

The world’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has been spinning in place north of Antarctica, contrary to expectations that it would be swiftly carried away by the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Instead of drifting towards its eventual dissolution in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic, A23a has been caught in a Taylor Column—a stationary, rotating water mass—created by an underwater obstruction called the Pirie Bank. This phenomenon, first described by physicist Sir G.I. Taylor in the 1920s, occurs when ocean currents meet seafloor obstructions, causing the water to split and form a vortex. As a result, A23a remains trapped, spinning anti-clockwise by about 15 degrees each day, which delays its decay and prolongs its existence.

World’s Biggest Iceberg Spins in Ocean Trap

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The unusual patterns, found beneath West Antarctica's Doston Ice Shelf, could help scientists to better understand how glaciers erode.

Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic ice

There’s a special kitchen at the bottom of the sea. Scientists are now closer to reconstructing how it whipped up early life, thanks to a massive 1.2-kilometer core that a ship drilled out from a Mount-Rainier-sized underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean. Johan Lissenberg, igneous petrologist at Cardiff University,...

Scientists Drilled Into An Underwater Mountain In the Atlantic’s ‘Lost City’ To Obtain A Massive Core Sample

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Jaw and arm bone fragments at an archeological site in Indonesia have revealed that humanity‘s so-called “Hobbit” ancestors were even smaller than initially thought. Knewz.com has learned that the first discovery of these humans was made when scientists dug out fairly recent remains dating back between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The latest find, located […]

Newly Discovered Hobbit Fossils From 700,000 Years Ago Reveal Stunning New Detail

In what can only be described as a herculean accomplishment, a team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth’s Mantle. This layer, hidden beneath the crust, forms the largest chunk of our planet. The insights gained from this...

Record-breaking hole drilled into the Earth’s mantle is a scientific goldmine

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Despite overall declines in the thickness and extent of Arctic sea ice, shipping routes along the northern coast of North America have become less navigable in recent years. The Northwest Passage, a challenging Arctic route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, has seen fewer than 400 voyages since 1906 due to treacherous ice conditions. Recent studies suggest that while climate change has reduced overall ice thickness, older, thicker ice remains, impeding navigation by clogging crucial choke points.

Arctic Ice Won’t Let Go: The Surprising Truth Behind the Northwest Passage

When Mount Vesuvius, the massive volcano in southern Italy, erupted in 79 AD, residents had no time to escape before showers of ash and rock buried them forever. However, new research reveals that some people did survive – but they were then killed by a second force of nature.

Pompeii disaster survivors were killed by second mysterious force, study finds

Ever wondered what the underside of a massive ice shelf in Antarctica looks like?. We know now after an underwater drone mapped the hidden side of one in Antarctica, The New York Times reports, revealing a dramatic landscape of deep crevices, sculptural terraces, and wide divots dug into the ice.

Underwater Drone Discovers Strange Shapes Under Antarctic Ice

An underwater excavation has uncovered evidence of human resilience during the climate changes of the Neolithic period. Around 6,200 BCE, the climate underwent significant changes. Global temperatures fell, sea levels rose, and the southern Levant—comprising present-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Syria, and the Sinai desert—experienced a prolonged drought.

Against All Odds: Scientists Unravel Secrets of 8200-Year-Old Neolithic Village That Defied a Climate Crisis

Imagine this dire scenario: the Atlantic Ocean's sea currents which bring warm water to Europe collapses, making large swaths of the continent as cold as the Arctic Circle. In a grim turn, that's just the scenario that a team of European scientists are warning about in a new study in the journal Nature Communications: that this catastrophic collapse — along with the ruination of the Amazon rainforest and the melting of polar ice — is on track to actually happen if we continue along our current path.

Major Earth Systems on Track for Collapse, Scientists Find

The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new study provides the first direct evidence that the center—not just the edges—of Greenland's ice sheet melted away in the recent geological past and the now-ice-covered island was then home to a green, tundra landscape. A team of...

Greenland fossil discovery stuns scientists and confirms that center of ice sheet melted in recent past

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 Mysterious carvings deciphered at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey suggest the world’s oldest monument – about twice as old as Stonehenge – is a solar calendar built to memorialise a devastating comet strike.A new study published in the journal Time and Mind on Tuesday indicates that Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old temple-like complex containing carvings of intricate symbols, was constructed to record an astronomical event that sparked the dawn of human civilisation.The world’s first calendar, made around 9,000BC, enabled people to observe the sun, moon and constellations in order to keep track of time and mark the change...

Strange carvings at world’s oldest monument suggest civilisation began after devastating comet strike

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Groundbreaking Antarctic Glacier Survey Reveals Hidden Secrets

First comprehensive maps of a glacier’s underside, created using an autonomous underwater vehicle, provide insights into potential future sea-level changes. An international research team used an...

Groundbreaking Antarctic Glacier Survey Reveals Hidden Secrets

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