Brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have detailed temporary reductions in gray matter following prolonged ...

With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.

The book “Ice Station” chronicles the creation of Halley VI, a British research station in Antarctica.

You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth?

Scientists at McMurdo Station in Antarctica use their location on the southernmost continent to study astronomy, biology, climatology and more. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

Travel has been paused after McMurdo Station, a U.S. research base in Antarctica, suffered a COVID-19 outbreak with at least 98 people testing positive since October.

While tagging along with scientists at the Palmer research station in Antarctica, PM's senior science editor Jennifer Bogo must, of course, live there. Here's what life is like at an Antarctic ...

China’s new Antarctic station, Qinling, has been greeted with alarm in several recent articles.Some concern and watchfulness is warranted, but strategic panic is not. Given the advantages of the ...

Along with the roughly 1,100 other residents of Antarctica scattered across 41 bases occupied through midwinter, one thing is clear at Palmer Station—morale lies in the chef’s hands.

In Bleak Antarctica, a Scientific Sanctuary. $153 Million Station Replaces 30-Year-Old Geodesic Dome at Polar Outpost. December 16, ...

Global strength can be projected onto Antarctica in other ways: Bulgaria, for example, has little scientific presence there but over the past 10 years has named at least 1,000 out of 1,500 newly ...