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Antarctica
Antarctica is the southernmost continent in the world and the location of the South Pole. Uninhabited by humans and covered in ice, it is the coldest and driest continent and contains most of the world's ice.
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JUN 06, 2017Earth & The Environment
Larsen C, a huge ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, is getting ready to take its leave from the peninsula. The shelf ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 30, 2017Earth & The Environment
In order to better expose and inspire students to take an interest in STEM subjects, one man has built a portable above- ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 26, 2017Videos
Can you imagine a world without ice? Even if you live in Florida with the sole intention of escaping icy winters, ice do ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 23, 2017Microbiology
Ongoing climate research in Antarctica has documented the changing environment, and analysis shows that the ecosystem is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 15, 2017Plants & Animals
If there’s one kind of animal in the wild that doesn’t get as much attention as it should, it just might be ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 02, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters aims to clarify a dispute about a previous study’s ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 16, 2017Plants & Animals
If you were to scavenge the world to see just how many different kinds of trees there were, you would find so many that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 15, 2017Plants & Animals
While cave-dwelling fish might be somewhat of a regularity in certain parts of the world, you used to be able to count E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 05, 2017Microbiology
I recently saw a headline about how fruit flies that take more naps are more resistant to fungal and bacterial infection ...Written By: Kerry EvansFEB 22, 2017Earth & The Environment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported that sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest month ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 17, 2017Space & Astronomy
Antarctica has long been a common place to find meteorites, and while there are a lot of them residing there, we also se ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 10, 2017Videos
On Mount Erebus, the tallest peak on Ross Island in Antarctica, there exists a molten lake of lava which constantly emit ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 24, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA this month shared a really cool image of the Earth and the Moon as they appear from Mars, a distance of around 127 ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 10, 2017Earth & The Environment
Last year a team of Australian researchers discovered a large channel of warm water about 10 kilometres wide and one kil ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 14, 2016Earth & The Environment
There are a number of problems with the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth that are occurring because of climate ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 07, 2016Plants & Animals
As much of Antarctica remains unexplored because of its vastness and mysteriousness, any discovery that we come across o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
Buzz Aldrin, the second American astronaut to walk on the Moon following Neil Armstrong, was recently medically evacuate ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 02, 2016Earth & The Environment
South of New Zealand and deep in the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean, the 1.9 million square-mile Ross Sea is sometimes ca ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 18, 2016Videos
There's good news from Antarctica, where researchers with tools like ozonesondes - pictured above - have been following ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 08, 2016Videos
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is an infection that has wreaked havoc in hospitals and nursing ho ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 18, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Turning back to nature’s marine medicine cabinet, scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) may have fou ...MAY 02, 2016Immunology
Findings Could Guide Development of Treatments for Lassa Fever For the first time, scientists at The Scripps Research In ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)MAR 30, 2016Space & Astronomy
The Cassini spacecraft has observed geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus since 2005, but the process that d ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 03, 2016Videos
Humans have a unique fascination with Mars. We've conceived of alien Martians and even thought of being our own human Ma ...
JUN 06, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Larsen C, a huge ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, is getting ready to take its leave from the peninsula. The shelf
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 30, 2017
Earth & The Environment
In order to better expose and inspire students to take an interest in STEM subjects, one man has built a portable above-
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 26, 2017
Videos
Can you imagine a world without ice? Even if you live in Florida with the sole intention of escaping icy winters, ice do
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 23, 2017
Microbiology
Ongoing climate research in Antarctica has documented the changing environment, and analysis shows that the ecosystem is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
If there’s one kind of animal in the wild that doesn’t get as much attention as it should, it just might be
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 02, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters aims to clarify a dispute about a previous study’s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 16, 2017
Plants & Animals
If you were to scavenge the world to see just how many different kinds of trees there were, you would find so many that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
While cave-dwelling fish might be somewhat of a regularity in certain parts of the world, you used to be able to count E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 05, 2017
Microbiology
I recently saw a headline about how fruit flies that take more naps are more resistant to fungal and bacterial infection
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
FEB 22, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported that sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest month
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 17, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Antarctica has long been a common place to find meteorites, and while there are a lot of them residing there, we also se
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 10, 2017
Videos
On Mount Erebus, the tallest peak on Ross Island in Antarctica, there exists a molten lake of lava which constantly emit
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 24, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA this month shared a really cool image of the Earth and the Moon as they appear from Mars, a distance of around 127
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 10, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Last year a team of Australian researchers discovered a large channel of warm water about 10 kilometres wide and one kil
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 14, 2016
Earth & The Environment
There are a number of problems with the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth that are occurring because of climate
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
As much of Antarctica remains unexplored because of its vastness and mysteriousness, any discovery that we come across o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Buzz Aldrin, the second American astronaut to walk on the Moon following Neil Armstrong, was recently medically evacuate
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 02, 2016
Earth & The Environment
South of New Zealand and deep in the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean, the 1.9 million square-mile Ross Sea is sometimes ca
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 18, 2016
Videos
There's good news from Antarctica, where researchers with tools like ozonesondes - pictured above - have been following
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 08, 2016
Videos
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is an infection that has wreaked havoc in hospitals and nursing ho
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 18, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Turning back to nature’s marine medicine cabinet, scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) may have fou
...
MAY 02, 2016
Immunology
Findings Could Guide Development of Treatments for Lassa Fever For the first time, scientists at The Scripps Research In
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
MAR 30, 2016
Space & Astronomy
The Cassini spacecraft has observed geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus since 2005, but the process that d
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 03, 2016
Videos
Humans have a unique fascination with Mars. We've conceived of alien Martians and even thought of being our own human Ma
...