A huge drill designed by enginers at the University of Wisconsin’s Ice Coring and Drilling Services, or ICDS, in Madison will soon head to Anarctica.Scientists will use it to drill two miles down to extract cores of 100,000 year-old ice. They’re looking for clues that might explain the warm winter we’re having. Gil Halsted reports…
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