“Then we started drilling and things went amazingly well ... So, by examining the chemicals that appear along the cylindrical rock core, microbiologists are hoping to determine the conditions ...

Houston-based startup Quaise Energy is testing technology that melts and even vaporizes rock to unlock "superhot" rock ...

Several boxes of rock core are pictured Monday, December 23, 2024. The Kansas Geological Survey’s library of drill cores, which currently includes over 73,000 boxes of rocks, is expanding to ...

By drilling 1.7 miles beneath the icy surface ... An assessment of the rock from below the core could even divulge when the Antarctic Plateau was ice-free for the last time.

the project to obtain the core. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each summer over four years in average ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each ...