Thermoelectric generators probably won’t eliminate the charger for your Apple Watch, but for smaller, screenless wearables, the heat constantly escaping from your skin could fundamentally change how we power our devices.
The open-water hole stretched across 34,400 square miles, or roughly the size of Portugal.
The Wilkes Subglacial Basin contains enough ice to raise global mean sea level by 10 to 13 feet.
Millions of years ago, continental collisions created enormous mountains in what's now Antarctica. As they eroded, Earth's life thrived from their nutrient-rich deposits.
The breakup of Canada's last intact ice shelf caused the freshwater lake to drain away in just a few months.
New research suggests that Antarctica and Greenland have lost more than 11 trillion tons of ice since the 1970s, and the main driver isn't surface melting.
