Balloon-borne telescopes take baby pictures of the cosmos
Science  |  Space and Atmospheric Physics
Monday March 06, 2023
The SPIDER instrument has finished its 16-day voyage through the stratosphere above Antarctica, completing the second and final flight of its mission to search for evidence of gravitational waves from the earliest

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Groundwater could connect two of Earth's saltiest bodies of water
Science  |  Earth
Monday February 06, 2023
Liquid brine permeates the ground below Antarctica's largest ice-free area, new research finds.

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Ghost particles give scientists first look inside an active galaxy
Science  |  Space and Atmospheric Physics
Monday January 30, 2023
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected about 80 high-energy neutrinos emitted by a single active galaxy over the course of ten years.

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How juvenile Antarctic krill survive when it's cold, dark and icy
Science  |  The Biological World
Tuesday January 17, 2023
A pair of recently-published companion studies help clarify how juvenile Antarctic krill survive the long winter season.

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South Pole winter crew participate in virtual reality study
Science  |  Space and Atmospheric Physics
Monday January 09, 2023
Station staff tested a therapy that could be used on future space missions

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Hunt begins for Antarctica's oldest ice
Science  |  Ice and Snow
Monday December 19, 2022
U.S. researchers on the southernmost continent are in the midst of their first field season of a multi-year project to find and extract the oldest ice in Antarctica.

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