In mid-January, a team of scientists were sailing aboard a research vessel in frigid Antarctic waters. They planned to investigate an unexplored section of the Bellingshausen Sea and the creatures ...

Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...

British Antarctic Survey employee, Nathan Rhind, 27, left for the furthest reaches of the Southern hemisphere last November ...

A story I love to tell, which sounds outrageous but is technically true, is that I am the holder of a word first: I am the ...

California is activating a 70-feet wide "glory hole" — or "passive spillway," in the technical nomenclature — that spills ...

With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it's really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, ...

Massive Antarctic Ozone Hole Over Past Four Years: What Is to Blame? Nov. 21, 2023 — Despite public perception, the Antarctic ozone hole has been remarkably massive and long-lived over the past ...

For decades, climate models have predicted that the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica should be warming in response to global climate change. But surprisingly, real-world data show something ...