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Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Is a Graveyard of Dead Continents – New York Times

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Beneath Antarctica's Ice Is a Graveyard of Dead Continents
New York Times
The eastern section of Antarctica is buried beneath a thick ice sheet. Some scientists simply assumed that under that cold mass there was nothing more than a “frozen tectonic block,” a somewhat homogeneous mass that distinguished it from the mixed up …
Mysterious radioactive heat source slowly melting iceYahoo News
The Coldest Place on EarthAntarctica Journal

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Beneath Antarctica’s Ice, Intriguing Evidence of Lost Continents – Live Science

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Beneath Antarctica's Ice, Intriguing Evidence of Lost Continents
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A new map reveals the remnants of ancient continents lurking beneath Antarctica's ice. The map shows that East Antarctica is made up of multiple cratons, which are the cores of continents that came before, according to study leader Jörg Ebbing, …
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Satellite reveals remnants of ancient continents under Antarctica’s ice – Mother Nature Network

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Satellite reveals remnants of ancient continents under Antarctica's ice
Mother Nature Network
Researchers uncover the remnants of lost continents hidden under the ice sheets of Antarctica.
Long-Lost Continents Under Antarctica Revealed in Old Satellite DataPopular Mechanics
Fresh satellite images reveal LOST CONTINENTS hidden underneath AntarcticaExpress.co.uk
A Satellite Found Remnants of Lost Continents Under AntarcticaFuturism
Daily Mail –The Weather Channel –ESA –Nature
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Huge Lakes Thought to Be Hiding Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Seem to Have Vanished – Live Science

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Huge Lakes Thought to Be Hiding Beneath Antarctica's Ice Seem to Have Vanished
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An icy mystery brewing under Recovery Glacier in Antarctica has scientists scratching their heads. Where researchers once thought there was a network of under-ice lakes, there now seem to be none. Antarctic researchers have long believed that large …
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Weird ‘Singing’ Coming From Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf Recorded by Scientists – Newsweek

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Weird 'Singing' Coming From Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf Recorded by Scientists
Newsweek
A weird “singing” sound has been recorded coming from one of Antarctica's vast ice shelves. The “song” was recorded over two years during observations of seismic changes to the Ross Ice Shelf—a slab of ice about the size of Texas. "It's kind of like …
Scientists Discover a Weird Noise Coming From Antarctic Ice ShelfGizmodo
Vibrating slab of Antarctic ice sounds like a horror movieMashable
Antarctic ice shelf 'sings' as winds whip across its surfaceScience Daily
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Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier … – Scientific American

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Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier …
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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the …
A new 19-mile-long crack opened up on the vulnerable Antarctic coastMashable

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Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier – Live Science

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Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier
Live Science
A newly discovered long and craggy rift is splintering across West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, satellite images show. The nearly 19-mile-long (30 kilometers) rift started in the middle of the ice shelf, where the ice shelf touches warmer ocean …

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Rapid, widespread changes may be coming to Antarctica’s Dry Valleys – Science Daily

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Rapid, widespread changes may be coming to Antarctica's Dry Valleys
Science Daily
Antarctica's sandy polar desert, the McMurdo Dry Valleys, has undergone changes over the past decade and the recent discovery of thawing permafrost, thinning glaciers and melting ground ice by a Portland State University-led research team are signs …
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics – Scientific American

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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics
Scientific American
And yet, since March 2016, researchers have been puzzling over two events in Antarctica where cosmic rays did burst out from the Earth, and were detected by NASA's Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)—a balloon-borne antenna drifting over the …
Strange Particles Coming Out of the Earth Hint at New PhysicsYahoo News
Strange Cosmic Rays Shooting From Antarctic Soil Puzzle Scientists – ReportsSputnik International
Impossible cosmic rays are shooting out of AntarticaBig Think
Gizmodo Australia
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, and They Might … – Live Science

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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might …
Live Science
There's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle.

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