Moving people and supplies across the Great White South is treacherous, difficult, and expensive with logistical costs constituting as much as 90 per cent of an expedition's budget — about £100,000 a trip on average. And that's assuming the convoy isn't swallowed by an ice crevasse en route. But a new radar-equipped rover could help the National Science Foundation save lives and millions of pounds a year. Read More >>

NASA's got all kinds of cred when it comes to space, but the very depths of our own planet's oceans aren't that much different. So who better to take a deep dive and drudge up the first images of the watery world beneath Antarctica's ancient glaciers? Read More >>

When humanity's not trying to destroy itself, its steadily redefining its boundaries. Every passing year, we create further-flung outposts in places nature never intended to us to inhabit. Here are the loneliest places mankind has made its bed in search of the unknown, the overwhelming, and the great. Read More >>

The Antarctic ice shelf is among the most hostile, uninhabitable environments on the face of the Earth. However, with virtually zero atmospheric pollution and low levels of electromagnetic interference, it is also one of the best places on the planet for climate, atmospheric, and geological research. But how do you keep 14 scientists from becoming meat popsicles in a place where temperatures rarely top 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-17.77 degrees C)? With a ski-wearing modular laboratory, of course. Read More >>

Headed out to explore the frigid Arctic? Better pack some blow. Scottish author Gavin Francis details the medical supplies early 20th century expeditions took on their treks to the South Pole, and they read more like the inventory list of a heavily stocked drug den than a voyage to the coldest place on the planet. Read More >>

Antarctica's a viciously inhospitable land, averaging a balmy -55 degrees C in the continent's interior. That's precisely where an intrepid band of American scientists have dug clean through 3405 metres of ice sheet, in an effort to research an eon's worth of climate change. To do it, they used this one-of-a-kind coring machine. Read More >>

Remember the 18-mile-long canyon that was discovered by NASA at the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica? Their researchers just completed the three-dimensional mapping of its entire surface with stunning detail, using Digital Mapping System photographs over Airborne Topographic Mapper data. Read More >>

After 20 years of drilling, Russian scientists have finally punched a hole in the bottom of the planet to reach the ancient lake 13,000 feet beneath Antarctica. Read More >>

This discovery is amazing, amd 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. Read More >>

If you were to poke your nose around the door of some fashionable London boutiques  -- Howies, Albam, Fred Perry - you might encounter a jacket made with a mysterious material called “Ventile”. First developed for the World War II, this stuff is waterproof, windproof and 100 per cent breathable, which makes it perfect for the unpredictable British weather. Read More >>