Scientists have studied the night sky for thousands of years searching for clues to help them understand the universe. The South Pole Telescope team achieved...
As the tropics go, so goes West Antarctica. That’s the conclusion from scientists who analyzed ice cores recovered by the U.S. component of the International...
The bottom of McMurdo Sound is teeming with life – from brittle stars to scallops to wildly diverse single-celled critters called foraminifera. That’s the story...
It’s been about 20 years since the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs initiated a program to recover an ice core from Greenland. Now...
Outside of penguins and seals that congregate on the continent’s coastal fringes, Antarctica appears to be a lifeless cube of ice, where only humans have...
Was part of Antarctica once a sort of highway upon which vertebrates, perhaps even early mammals, traversed between South America and Australia? That is just...