After 20 years of drilling, Russian scientists have finally punched a hole in the bottom of the planet to reach the ancient lake 4km beneath Antarctica. More »
A group of Australian scientists from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) are on the way to Antarctica to find out what effect solar activity has had on Earth’s global warming. More »
I just came across this clip from Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World (2007). What you can hear in it is fascinating: the sound of seals in the Antarctic are like nothing you could have imagined. More »
About 4km under the Earth is Lake Vostok, which hasn’t seen the light of day in 20 million years. It’s taken almost 20 years of drilling, but Russian scientists are about to break through and explore the lake at the bottom of the world. More »
This discovery is amazing, straight out of a Jules Verne’s novel: scientists from the University of Oxford, University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre, and the British Antarctic Survey have discovered a “lost world” under Antarctica, in the East Scotia Ridge. More »
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rumbled the northeast coast of Japan at a depth of 24km. The resulting tsunami destroyed everything nearby, but most people thought it never affected other areas. Until now. More »
Sending humans to Mars is going to cost gazillion dollars and take a long, long time – but when it does happen, we want to be prepared. How? Go to Antarctica in spacesuits and pretend it’s Mars. More »
