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Classroom Activity for the NOVA program Descent Into the Ice: In Is It Icy Water or Watery Ice, students investigate the phase change of water turning into ice. Grades 6-8.
The Authoritarian Experiment Reimagined In her attempt to mirror the oppressive environment depicted in 1984, the teacher transformed her classroom into a microcosm of a totalitarian state.
An open house to learn more about a new biotechnology program at Glacier Peak High School is set for 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the campus, 7401 144th Place SE, Snohomish.
The small village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was largely destroyed by a landslide that occurred as a result of the partial collapse of the Birch Glacier on May 28, 2025.
On subjecting these blocks or model glaciers to pressure, it was found that warm bottom ice moves out laterally from beneath colder ice and that transverse crevasses are developed by this differential ...
A classroom experiment that showed how quickly germs can spread has gone viral. Earlier this month, a teacher in Idaho wanted to demonstrate to her elementary students how important handwashing is ...
Warming waters are reaching several miles into Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—nicknamed the “doomsday glacier” because of its potential impact on sea-level rise ...
AMES, Iowa – Backed by experimental data from a laboratory machine that simulates the huge forces involved in glacier flow, glaciologists have written an equation that accounts for the motion of ice ...
The paper describes lab experiments and the resulting data that suggest a standard value within the “empirical foundation of glacier flow modeling” – an equation known as Glen’s flow law, named after ...