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The New Siberian Islands were the birthplace of the MOSAiC floe: the sea ice in which the research vessel Polarstern is now drifting through the Arctic was formed off the coast of the archipelago ...
A stunning floor mosaic that once adorned an ancient Roman villa has been unearthed underwater near Naples, Italy. The ...
The MOSAiC floe had already drifted over 1200 nautical miles in a meandering course when the research icebreaker Polarstern moored to it on 4 October 2019, at the coordinates 85° North and 137 ...
Archaeologists in southern Jordan have uncovered the long-lost Byzantine city of Tharais, tucked away on the southeast coast ...
A Roman-style mosaic has been unveiled at a sea life viewing station on the Scarborough coast. The artwork, by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and mosaicist Coralie Turpin, measures 27.5ft (8.4m ...
A fire that destroyed an ancient Holy Land church near the Sea of Galilee around 700 CE appears to have preserved the church’s beautiful mosaic floor, which includes depictions of baskets ...
Photo: Marcel Nicolaus/MOSAIC “Even small amounts of photons going through the ice can start biological productivity in ice-associated algae that are the bottom of the food web,” Matero told ...
Scientists on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time use remote sensing to help determine the volume of the Arctic's sea ice.
The floor mosaic is part of a 50-dwelling Roman villa built in the second century on a cliff in Kent that is in danger of falling into the sea. Sarah Rose Sharp September 27, 2022 ...
Noah’s Ark and the Parting of the Red Sea The high artistic quality and the tiny size of the mosaic cubes used impressed the archaeologists in 2011, and this latest find is equally impressive ...
You add heat, you melt ice," he says. "But it is so complicated." As more sea ice melts in the summertime, it's contributing fresher water to the top of the ocean.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A fire that destroyed an ancient Holy Land church near the Sea of Galilee around 700 CE appears to have preserved the church's beautiful mosaic floor, which includes ...