Cosmological Crisis
Anil Ananthaswamy talks about how cosmology today is in crisis. He asks, “Can the next generation of experiments in cosmology and particle physics help anchor...
Month : January 2023
Dawn of an Age
Paleontologists spent weeks in Antarctica flying and hiking among the peaks and outcrops of the continent’s longest mountain range to collect the rare and unusual...
Remote Operations
The small field camps that speck the islands of the Antarctic Peninsula are far from the main artery of USAP logistics, across the other side...
Return of the Dinosaur (Hunters)
Paleontologists working on a high peak in the central Transantarctic Mountains have recovered more than half of the fossils belonging to the first dinosaur found...
Away From the Lab
Science doesn’t just happen in sterile labs. Researchers interested in studying one of the world’s fastest-changing ecosystems spend months at a time living out of...
Food Shortage
A decline in the abundance of krill, a food favored by two species of penguins, is the most likely cause for why the seabird populations...
Weather Warrior
How does weather forecasting in Iraq prepare a person for work in the U.S. Antarctic Program? The only difference, according to meteorologist Mike Carmody, between...
Turning Over an Old Leaf
Eight years ago, when paleobotanists Edith and Tom Taylor and their team were last in the central Transantarctic Mountains searching for fossils, foul weather and...
Dropping Off Supplies
Team McChord Airmen assigned to the Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in support of Operation Deep Freeze has completed four operational C-17 Globemaster III airdrops to the...
Tectonic Evolution
A team of seasoned geologists braved hurricane-force winds in the central mountain range of Antarctica to learn more about the continent’s ancient landscape, which they...
