Obtain daily sea ice extent values, ranges, and median values for the Arctic or the Antarctic. Analyze monthly-averaged or daily sea ice extent and concentration via interactive maps. Plot monthly ice ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye-catching archaeology stories. →Anglers spot something poking out of seafloor — leading to rare ancient find in Italy →Hiker ...

An international team of scientists set sail on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Falkor (too) research vessel in September to ...

→Anglers spot something poking out of seafloor — leading to rare ancient find in Italy →Hiker finds strange item at melting glacier in Switzerland — and it stumps officials →'Phantom ...

For the past several decades, this radar-altimeter-based approach has allowed scientists to produce seafloor maps at moderate resolution. Improved data uncovered thousands of undersea peaks that were ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between 230 and 270 — when the predominant religions in Europe were Judaism and paganism — has been virtually illegible until now. Specialists from ...

During an excavation in the center of Alkmaar, archaeologists uncovered a rare and mysterious floor made partly from animal bones. The find, located in a building on Achterdam Street, has left experts ...

Ship-based sonar has a resolution of about 200–400 meters (650–1,300 feet). The Seabed 2030 project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade using this method. However, the ...

Using satellite altimetry data from SWOT, scientists have created a global map of marine gravity, uncovering thousands of new seamounts. (Eötvös is a unit that measures the ocean’s vertical ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links ...