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Science

DoD's latest UFO report includes commercial flight near-miss

It’s not just the Mulders of the world watching the skies anymore – the Scullys are getting involved. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has released its latest report on UFOs, with some intriguing stats and stories.

These incredible iceberg images investigate Tom Hegen's fascination with the shapes, texture and appearance of broken off ice masses from the Arctic Ice Sheet

Environment

The Iceberg Series chronicles the sublime shapes of Greenland's sea ice

A new series of photographs from award-winning aerial photographer Tom Hegen explores the abstract beauty in icebergs. Shot off the west coast of Greenland, Hegen’s work captures the majesty of these giant white castles.

This bizarrely, but not unusual, rectangular iceberg is called a tabular iceberg and was discovered by IceBridge just a few days ago floating off the Larsen C ice shelf

Environment

Rectangular icebergs and the snowy spectacle of NASA’s latest Antarctic aerial mission

NASA's Operation IceBridge is currently gathering measurements of Antarctic land and sea ice. The data it gathers will be compared to measurements from the newly orbiting ICESat-2, while the images captured provide a breathtaking look in and around the frozen continent.

A smoke visualization still of the actual vortex wake behind our glider during a free-flight high angle of attack landing (Image: Jason Dorfman MIT/CSAIL)

Science

MIT researchers create a model plane that lands on a wire

In a move that could have important implications for robotic planes, MIT researchers have given a foam glider the ability to lightly touch down on a target as narrow as a telephone wire.