A team of researchers from the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, has discovered a complex assemblage of bacteria and archaea in the waters and...
According to a team of genetic researchers headed by Prof David Denlinger of the Ohio State University, the Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) has the...
A new study led by Dr Peter Fretwell of British Antarctic Survey is the first to use satellite imagery to suggest that emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri)...
According to a team of scientists from the United States, Finland, Australia and Germany, the Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier...
Scientists led by Dr Christo Buizert of Oregon State University have successfully used an innovative radiometric-Krypton-dating technique to determine...
British researchers have brought back to life 1,530-year-old moss recovered from Antarctic permafrost.
Extensive regrowth of the 1,530-year-old moss Chorisodontium...
New research, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that the steam and heat from volcanoes may have allowed many plant...
NASA planetary scientists say they have found evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite.
This SEM image shows spheroidal features...
Researchers from the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program have described a new species of anemone from waters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
In...
Physicists using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole have detected for the first time mysterious, high-energy neutrinos that originate outside...
Researchers reporting in the journal Climate of the Past have identified regions of Antarctica they say could record the past 1.5 million years of Earth’s...
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, British researchers have reported the discovery of giant ice channels beneath the floating Filchner-Ronne...
An international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has for the first time been able to get a complete...
British researchers have discovered evidence of diverse life forms, dating back more than 100,000 years, in sediments of a subglacial lake on the Antarctic...
According to a large multinational team of researchers, West Antarctica began emerging from the last Ice Age about 20,000 to 22,000 years ago, well before...
