It’s rare these days to uncover a phenomenon completely new to science, one that expands the world’s catalog of objects in strange and wondrous ways. But just as it’s happened in the past few years ...

Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice—sometimes called "sea stalactites"—that grow downward into cold seawater near the Earth's poles, scientists are ...

One of the more curious processes that occur beneath the Antarctic sea ice in winter is the formation of brinicles. These are hollow tubes of ice that project down from the ice pack into the sea below ...

What's cooler than being cool? Brine-cold. When salt-rich water leaks out of sea ice, it sinks into the sea and can occasionally create an eerie finger of ice called a brinicle. New research explains ...

t descend from Antarctic sea ice. They look a lot like icicles, but aren’t. As sea water freezes into ice, it excludes salt and other ions, which get trapped in brine-rich compartments in sea ice.

Brinicles are a combination of brine and icicles that grow underneath ice shelves in the ocean. While they're technically just a sliver of super-cooled ice that grows downwards, brinicles have also ...

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What's cooler than being cool? Brine-cold. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. When salt-rich water leaks out of sea ice, it sinks ...