As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

The age of Antarctic exploration was one of those rare chapters in history where curiosity pushed people into conditions that most of us could barely imagine. Explorers set out into freezing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is this visitor to Antarctica going crazy or having a good time? Tim Bieber/Photodisc via Getty Images As Midwinter Day approaches ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Antarctica is renowned for its extreme cold; yet liquid water occurs at the base of ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...

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