The coldest place on Earth isn’t just chilly, it’s cold enough to freeze your breath solid before it leaves your mouth. We’re talking about temperatures so extreme they barely seem possible on our ...

At the southern end of the world, Antarctica had been the subject of various claims for years, with even the question of who saw it first, in 1820, up for debate – was it the Russians, the British or ...

A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The record had stood for nearly 30 years: ...