Focus on IPY
There are more than 200 science projects around the world flying the International Polar Year banner. One group envisions weaving all those stories of scientific...
Going With the Flow
A team of oceanographers will spend more than three weeks in the infamously rough Drake Passage to learn more about the world’s largest ocean current,...
Going on a Diet
There’s an old saying: You are what you eat. But the krill-based diet of penguins breeding and living on King George Island off the northern...
Keeping Track
Mike Goebel uses high- and low-tech methods to find what Antarctic fur seals had for dinner. The interest in diet isn’t simply for curiosity’s sake....
Need For Speed
It won’t help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve...
Challenging Orthodoxy
A team of scientists working around Byrd Glacier in Antarctica this season may shake up scientific orthodoxy about the formation of the continent’s tallest and...
The Shadow Knows
It all started with a science fair project at James Monroe Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M. Last month, teacher Turtle Haste and her student Andy...
Going Higher and Longer
The National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super-pressure balloon prototype that will one...
The Leading Edge
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have teamed up to explore one of the last relatively uncharted areas of East Antarctica, an...
No Longer the Exception
Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica – the...
