The Northwest Passage is blocked by very thick ice in the Beaufort Sea.

DMI Modelled ice thickness

Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast.

Heavy sea ice off Newfoundland and southern Labrador has been an issue for months: it brought record-breaking numbers of polar bear visitors onshore in early March and April and since then has hampered the efforts of fisherman to get out to sea.

For the first time, China has successfully sent pairs of entangled photons from a satellite in orbit to three ground stations in the country each separated by more than 1,200-km, in a major breakthrough that opens up prospects for practical quantum communications.

A team of researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea has developed a type of adhesive patch that works under a variety of conditions including underwater. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they studied octopus suction cups to design a better patch for human applications.

Achieving a perfect score in the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man is something to brag about, which is probably what Microsoft’s artificial intelligence is doing right now, assuming it actually knows how to brag.

Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr. Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research into global warming (aka climate change). ‘The current focus on CO2 emissions reductions risks having a massively expensive global solution that is more damaging to societies than the problem of climate change,’ she says.

Astronauts at the International Space Station released Aalto-2 into orbit on 25 May. The first satellite signal was detected from Japan on the same day, and later that evening the satellite had already made contact with the Otaniemi ground station.

While many have believed that an ill-placed meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, new research shows that may not have been the full story behind it.

It could have been the sun — or at least the sun’s brother.

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession – prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.

Facebook has started deploying its artificial intelligence capabilities to help combat terrorists’ use of its service.

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore telescope has offered astronomers a detailed view of the star factory inside the Orion Nebula, one of the most famous and oft-photographed star-birthing clouds in the cosmos.

Chinese scientists claim they will attempt to grow potatoes on the moon in 2018, according to state-run media.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scientists who had been conducting the first comprehensive atmospheric measurements in the region since the 1960s.

China today successfully launched its first X-ray space telescope to help scientists study the evolution of black holes, strong magnetic fields, and gamma-ray bursts.

Asteroid impacts pose such a huge threat to humanity that scientists are considering “backing-up” life on Earth in secure bunkers, according to an Australian robotics professor.