At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Scientists are solving the mystery of when diverged from their closest relative–the brown bear. By Laura Baisas Published Sep 15, 2024 8:00 PM EDT Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily ...

On January 1, some hardy souls will greet the new year not by nursing a champagne hangover in bed, but by plunging into frigid water. In New York City, thousands of people participate in a seaside ...

Researchers tracking wild polar bears in northern Canada have witnessed something exceedingly rare: a mother bear adopting a cub that was not biologically her own. The five-year-old mother bear and ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures, more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be ...

Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...