Buried beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheets lies Lake Vostok, a hidden world that has been isolated for 15 million years.

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

This year I was offered the opportunity to go to Antarctica, a journey of almost 7,000 miles through the air, on land, and finally on water, to a part of the world that far less than 1 percent of ...

While colder temperatures have been recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (minus 128.6 degrees on July 21, 1983) and Klink Station, Greenland (minus 93.3 degrees on Dec. 22, 1991), Oymyakon's ...

The Antarctic ... life down there. In the Russian sector on the east of the continent, early radar results suggested the presence of water two miles below the surface – a huge freshwater lake ...

Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a way to live, and sometimes even thrive, in conditions so harsh they appear ...

“My brother died at 37. My mom died at 63,” she said. Still, for most of her life, she seemed healthy and passed extensive medical tests before leaving for Antarctica. Even when she noticed some ...

Yet the case of the 'Lady in the Lake' is still shrouded in mystery ... and saw him jailed for life. But he always denied the killing, described at his trial as a crime of passion after her ...