An unusual protein structure known as a 'rippled beta sheet,' first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the laboratory and characterized in detail using x-ray crystallography. The new findings ...

Recent joint research led by Professor AN Zhisheng from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the pivotal role of the growth of the Antarctic ice sheet and ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future. When you ...

Greenland's ice sheet is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s. And all that meltwater is directly raising sea levels. That's all according to a new study, published April 22 in the ...