An international team co-led by Imperial College London has obtained the longest ever sediment core from beneath the ...

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...

An international research team has achieved a scientific milestone by recovering a 228-meter-long sediment ...

An Antarctic sediment sample dating back millions of years shows evidence that a major ice sheet partially or totally ...

An international research team co-led by a researcher from ETH Zurich has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet ...

“To our knowledge, the longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than 10 m. We exceeded our target of 200 m, and undertook this 700 km from the nearest base – this is ...

Marine scientist Matthew Costa is used to digging into research—literally. Over the course of his PhD program at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Costa frequently muddied his hands ...

In 2012, an 85-year-old scientist and his son-in-law pulled a cylinder of muck from a faraway island. They carried it home like a newborn baby, froze it, and mailed it to a researcher across the ...