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British scientists to explore Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth
A team of 12 scientists from Britain have begun a mission to explore Lake Ellsworth in the north west of Antarctica. The 14-kilometer long, three-kilometer wide, 160-meter deep lake is located 3.2 kilometers beneath a glacier and is...
Neuro Transmissions
Losing The Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is often viewed as the ultimate achievement in science. But to what extent would you go to win it? In 2014, astronomer Dr. Brian Keating invented BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made. Using this, he...
Science360
Hidden Oil Plumes
Will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico create dead zones? That's the concern of University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye. She's headed to the gulf to investigate how the oil and methane gas discharged by the BP Deepwater...
Curated Video
Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula - Gonzales Videla Base
Gonzalez Videla Base, is on the Antarctic mainland at Waterboat Point in Paradise Bay. It is named after Chilean President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, who in the 1940s became the first chief of state of any nation to visit Antarctica. The...
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On Golden's Melt Pond_Math on Ice
With 17 trips (and counting) to Earth's polar regions spanning his mathematical career, mathematician Ken Golden of the University of Utah has been studying sea ice structure and behavior for over 20 years. It turns out that sea ice is...
Science360
Count seals in Antarctica from the comfort of your couch
In episode 72, Charlie and Jordan explore the first ever comprehensive count of Weddell seals in Antarctica: a citizen science program called Satellites Over Seals (SOS). SOS focuses on about 300 miles of Antarctic coastline along the...
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‘Boaty McBoatface’: RSS Sir David Attenborough sets sail for sea trials
The cutting-edge polar research ship the RRS Sir David Attenborough — which the British public attempted to name “Boaty McBoatface” — has set sail for the first time.
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Signs of life from Antarctic lake buried under more than 2,000 feet of ice
Signs of life have been detected in waters from a subglacial Lake Whillans half a mile beneath the surface of Antarctic. On Jan. 28, scientists retrieved a baseball bat-sized gray plastic vessel filled with water from Lake Whillans. The...
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Thwaites Glacier: Eastern Ice shelf could break up within five years
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, which acts as a dam to slow the flow of ice off Antarctica into the ocean, has a series of fractures spanning almost the entire shelf that could break it up within five years.
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Scientists search for life in Antarctica's subglacial lakes
Scientists are drilling into Antartica's ice sheets to study and hopefully find life in subglacial lakes that have been cut off from the atmosphere for millions of year. More than 300 such lakes, buried beneath two to three miles of ice,...
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US scientists drill into lake deep under Antarctic ice sheet
US scientists have drilled through 2,600 feet of ice to reach Lake Whillans, a subglacial lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Over the next few days, scientists will perform a variety of tests on samples gathered from the lake's...
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Massive iceberg breaks from Eastern Antarctica
Scientists said iceberg D-28 is among the largest to calve from Antarctic ice in decades, but is not caused by climate change.
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Researchers virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll-NSF Science Now 36
In this week's episode we discover a protein that could someday eliminate malaria, lear about microbes battling it out in Antarctica, explore super Wi-Fi that uses UHF channels and virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll.
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New Species of Sea Anemone Discovered by NSF Scientists in Antarctica
During a routine test of an underwater robot, NSF scientists from University of Nebraska-Lincoln made a startling discovery...an entirely new species of sea anemone living inside the ice. For more information, visit...
The Art Assignment
Art You Can't Get To
In 1958, scientists from Russia left a plastic bust of Vladimir Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, and as of 2007 it was still there. What does it mean? Guest host John Green ponders his fascination with this object and the...
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NASA finds rectangular iceberg in Antarctica
NASA's Operation IceBridge photographed a rectangular iceberg during a flyover over Antarctica.
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Antarctic ‘glue’ coming unstuck could be crucial in causing deterioration of ice shelves
The 2017 calving of the A68 iceberg from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf was likely caused by thinning ice melange, the mix of windblown snow, iceberg debris and frozen seawater that normally acts to glue rifts together with larger blocks.
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Life On The Ice
Life on the ice is extremely different from life around your own home town. Scientists work long days often without taking time for a break. When the research teams have time for rest and relaxation, they have to come up with creative...
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Scientists find ancient life buried underneath Antarctic ice
Researchers have discovered remains of tiny sea creatures deep beneath the ice in Antarctica.
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Two men attempt to cross Antarctica solo
Two explorers began their expedition earlier this month to try to cross Antarctica on their own, without any support.
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Massive ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could collapse into ocean
Scientists found that warm water is eating away the foundations under Antarctica’s so-called “Doomsday Glacier” at an alarm
Bizarre Beasts
Why Elephant Seals Drop Beats
Male elephant seals have rhythmic names that they keep throughout their lives and it looks like they also have naming trends.
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Eyes in the Sky - Antarctica
NSF-funded KU researchers successfully test unmanned aircraft system in Antarctica. Check it out!
ZooMoo
Animal Alphabet: E is for Emperor Penguin
Who’s that over there? Flash has just spotted another cool creature he can add to his Animal Alphabet! Our intrepid traveller Flash explores land, sea and air spotting different species of wildlife in their natural habitats and...