Yep, we’re using the heating pad as our chocolate-melting sidekick," Nicole wrote in the caption to her Instagram video. She ...

The blue color of the pools can also exacerbate further melting, as the darker shades absorb more heat than the surrounding white ice. If meltwater from these "blue puddles" drains through tiny ...

Recently, the work was completed by the group of Prof. Sheng Meng from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics. By ...

Several research groups around the world have taken on this problem, modeling the micro-scale ocean flow that supplies heat to the ice for melting. Researchers are looking for a relationship ...

The Arctic decided to turn up the heat this past weekend, with temperatures soaring above freezing. In some parts of the high ...