Rachel Feltman: Antarctica is the largest, coldest desert on the planet, with snowfall dropping less than six inches of water there each year. But for such a dry place, Antarctica has an outsize ...

A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica ...

The Dec. 2 issue of "Science" contains a report about a recently discovered bizarre little planet, located about 31 light years or nine parsecs from Earth, which has astronomers excited about their ...

Join students from Keystone college as they melt iron ore at 2800 degrees at the Iron Furn Join students from Keystone college as they melt iron ore at 2800 degrees at the Iron Furnaces in Scranton.

Recreating the Earth's liquid iron core in the laboratory: a tiny piece of iron, the size of a speck of dust, is thermally isolated and then placed between the tips of two conical diamonds. Pressing ...

Iron fertilisation has long been touted as a glimmer of hope amid rising emissions – but a new study has seemingly debunked ...

This is an opened diamond anvil cell. The conical diamond is visible in the center of the left disk. The metal sheet in the center of the right disk serves as the joint surrounding the sample. This ...