“Giving robots the ability to switch between liquid and solid states endows them with more functionality,” says engineer Chengfeng Pan. Scientists have made a breakthrough in robotics: shapeshifting robot that…
The polar ice caps are melting six times faster than in the 1990s, according to the most complete analysis to date.The ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the…
An Antarctic island that was once hidden has been uncovered after glaciers receding due to high temperatures revealed its shore. Polar researchers from the Thwaites Offshore Research (THOR) project saw…
Fifty-year-old Lewis Pugh says he was terrified when he plunged into the water of East Antarctica in nothing but swim briefs, a swim cap and goggles. He was even more…
Tidewater glaciers, the massive rivers of ice that end in the ocean, may be melting underwater much faster than previously thought, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that used robotic…
On January 27, 1820, Fabian Gottlieb van Bellingshausen and his crew became the first known people to lay eyes on mainland Antarctica. Today, on the 200th anniversary of its discovery,…