National Taiwan University associate professor of entomology Matan Shelomi is in Antarctica studying an endemic flightless insect species. At about half a centimeter long, the Belgica Antarctica is ...

Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team modeled Antarctica's ...

Two hundred million years ago, icy Antarctica was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs.

Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more ...

I saw this as something that I thought would change me,” said Clark Gamblin, a cancer surgeon in Milwaukee. “And change me ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include rainfall, according to new research.

When Gabe Castro-Root, a senior in the School of Communication, was selected to join multiple prominent scientists, ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

In a recovery-bound economy, it’s probably hard to sell vacations that cost up to $12,000 per person. But for a few Prior Lake families, the experience of exploring an unusual destination ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.