Run and Jump is a training simulator. Players compete against each other in long jumps. You'll want to be prepared, as your opponents can jump hundreds of miles in a single jump. To boost your ...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises the average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear. When you purchase through links on our ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time human societies became increasingly settled. A new study published in Nature ...

In September, a quirky game called Steal a Brainrot hosted 25 million players at the same time on Roblox’s global platform, surpassing a record set just months earlier by Roblox’s prior hit, Grow a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...