These new findings could help scientists adapt crops to dry environmental conditions in the future. Plants rely on sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich sugars and oxygen through different forms of photosynthesis. Drought can make that process far more difficult. A research group led by Wolfram Weckwerth at the University of Vienna […]
This Tiny Organism Contracts 200 Times Faster Than You Can Blink – Scientists Finally Know How
Spirostomum uses a calcium-activated protein network to contract at remarkable speed without conventional muscle fibers. In less than five milliseconds, the aquatic single-celled organism Spirostomum ambiguum can shrink to one quarter of its body length, a movement hundreds of times faster than a human blink. Researchers have now traced that speed to an unusual calcium-activated […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]
A Massive 29-Square-Mile Iceberg Hit an Island and Kept Going
A giant 29-square-mile iceberg broke from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and survived a collision with Joe Island that might have shattered a more fragile berg. Summer is the busiest time of year for iceberg activity in Greenland’s glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 brought another dramatic example. In August, a huge iceberg separated from Petermann Glacier on Greenland’s […]