Sea ice decline could weaken ocean currents of the North Atlantic

Aug 03, 2017, at 02:28 am

London, Aug 2 (IBNS): Arctic ice loss could lead to harsher winters and stormier weather in Europe because of its impact on Atlantic ocean currents, warn the authors of a new study led by the University of Southampton.

Stanford scientists discover how dense, extraterrestrial ice can form in just billionths of a second

Jul 14, 2017, at 11:42 pm

London, July 14 (IBNS): Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII , found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.

Scientists make “squarest” ice crystals ever

Jul 11, 2017, at 02:02 am

Columbus, July 10 (IBNS): You won’t find ice cubes like this in your freezer.

Ice in Ceres' shadowed craters linked to tilt history

Mar 23, 2017, at 03:38 pm

Washington, Mar 23 (IBNS): Dwarf planet Ceres may be hundreds of millions of miles from Jupiter, and even farther from Saturn, but the tremendous influence of gravity from these gas giants has an appreciable effect on Ceres' orientation.