Forget drilling. A simpler and cheaper way to search for an ocean under Europa’s glacial surface is to land a solitary electronic ear on the Jovian moon, and listen to the echoes of cracking ice. By ...

During a research trip to Antarctica, Peter Neff recorded a video of the sound ice makes when it falls 80-90 meters into a glacier borehole. What began as a “silly pastime” of tossing ice chunks down ...

You know that crackling, fizzing sound ice makes when you pour liquid over it? Soft drink companies are particularly fond of recreating it in their commercials, like this one: That oddly satisfying ...

A video of scientists dropping ice into a really deep hole has gone viral because of the wobbly cartoon-spaceship sound the falling ice makes. Princeton University geochemist John Andrew Higgins ...