A study looking into the dynamics of glacier flow and ice sheet breakdown has found that the melting of major ice sheets, and the subsequent rise in sea level, may occur much more rapidly than previously thought. The researchers say that the rapid structural breakdown of some important parts of the ice sheets on Greenland […]
The public’s imagination may have been fired up in the past by proposals for “space elevators” – where satellites or space vehicles are carried up a 62,000 mile cable into space – but the technological challenges that exist for such a project make its implementation a futuristic dream. But another type of tether may hold […]
