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Science

The good news about ‘giant viruses’ found in the Arctic Circle

By Tom Hawking

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Environment

An Antarctic feeding frenzy means good news for vulnerable fin whales

By Corinne Iozzio

Ocean simulator in giant saltwater tank at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. A Scripps researcher in a checkered shirt adjusts the settings on a computer with a COVID mask around his elbow.
Environment

A 120-foot-long ocean simulator is now making waves across the seven seas

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

An image of the Thwaites Glacier from NASA
Environment

Our biggest glacier problem is melting from the bottom-up

By Ted Scambos / The Conversation

Photo of Antarctica.
Environment

To grow food in space, we had to start in the Antarctic

By Daniella McCahey / The Conversation

An East Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed
Environment

An East Antarctic ice shelf has collapsed

By Sara Kiley Watson

Ice formations and ocean in Antarctica.
Environment

Record-breaking heat is bombarding the North and South poles

By Sara Kiley Watson

a yellow wheeled robot approaches a colony of penguins in the snow
Environment

The march of the penguins has a new star: an autonomous robot

By Lauren J. Young

two researchers in winter gear crouch over a small rock in an icy windy landscape. next to them are yellow and black snow mobiles
Science

A meteorite-hunting AI will scout for space rocks buried in polar ice

By Tatyana Woodall

Icefish nests encircled in stones on the ocean floor
Environment

Icefish build bizarre undersea nests—and that’s just the beginning

By Shi En Kim

boaty the sub in antarctica
Technology

Boaty McBoatface’s new mission is more serious than its name

By Charlotte Hu

Antarctica's icy Thwaites glacier in 2017
Environment

The ‘doomsday’ glacier is on the brink of collapse

By Sara Kiley Watson

planet earth with a rounded black shadow creeping over its southern pole
Science

A total solar eclipse bathed Antarctica in darkness

By Hannah Seo

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Technology

An undersea cable could bring speedy internet to Antarctica

By Charlotte Hu

A man walks beneath a shooting star.
Science

5,000 tons of ancient ‘extraterrestrial dust’ fall on Earth each year

By Leto Sapunar

iceberg floating in southern ocean
Environment

Eddies in the ocean might affect sea level rise

By Ula Chrobak

Calyptocephalella gayi frog.
Environment

How did ancient frogs move between America and Australia? Easy: They hopped across Antarctica.

By Sara Kiley Watson

Sunrise and ice floe in Antarctica
Environment

Antarctica is hotter today than it’s ever been

By Sara Kiley Watson

South Pole Science Lab
Technology

How one of the most remote places in the world hosts some of the most incredible science

By Alex Schwartz

The weirdest things we learned this week: virgin births, composted humans, and naked South Pole scientists
Science

The weirdest things we learned this week: virgin births, composted humans, and naked South Pole scientists

By Popular Science Team