The web site of veteran Antarctic researcher Sam Bowser sums it up well: “Science is useless unless it’s shared, and most kids are born scientists.”...
Scientists creating a network to triangulate and pinpoint lightning strikes around the world are using a very narrow band of radio waves to detect the...
Once a week at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) South Pole research site, Station Chief Jason Seifert or technician Glen Kinoshita walk into...
On the frozen Antarctic continent, subglacial lakes are a hot spot of scientific interest, but the information they contain remains untapped. “The ice sheet in...
Antarctic science requires many different methods in the pursuit of knowledge about the seventh continent and its place in the global ecosystem. The deeply browned...
Mount Erebus is famous for its persistent but low-level activity as the world’s southernmost active volcano. But last year it threw one of its biggest...
Imagine a universe that exploded into existence and expanded exponentially, faster than the speed of light. Cosmologists operating a new telescope at Amundsen-Scott South Pole...
Searching for a minute change in microwave radiation that has traveled across space for some 14 billion years requires not only state-of-the-art equipment, such as...