In 1957, a team of Kiwis led by Sir Edmund Hillary undertook an extraordinary journey across Antarctica as part of the ...

Most meetings reward the loudest and quickest voices. Fast talkers dominate, while more reflective thinkers get sidelined. Ideas are judged not by their substance but by the confidence with which they ...

The Soviet expedition to the pole of inaccessibility in 1958 was the USSR’s response to the Amundsen-Scott station that the U.S. built on the South Pole two years earlier in 1956.

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

Sudden onset blindness spurred Mark Pollock to become an adventure athlete, and when a fall from a second-story window ...

There can be few on this island who have never heard of Ernest Shackleton or Tom Crean, but a new Irish award aims to ...

I’ve endured numerous rounds of radiation and taken thousands of pills—but CAR-T is the most effective therapy I’ve completed ...

Irish Polar Institute founded to honour explorers' achievements in the Arctic and Antarctic, with annual awards for ...

Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

America’s brainchild — may be humanity’s greatest geopolitical feat, governing the only continent never to see war. Now, as China pulls ahead in polar science, the US may be sabotaging its role in the ...