For more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as windows into worlds beyond Earth.
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Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote and extreme places.
Over the past 30 years, the South Pole has been one of the fastest changing places on Earth, warming more than three times quicker than the rest of the world.
Buildings and human disturbance in Antartica is clustered in an ice-free zone that is essential to most of the continent’s biodiversity.
A detector buried under more than a mile of ice in Antarctica has detected a high-energy subatomic neutrino and traced it to its origin, a blazar – a gargantuan black hole more than a billion times more massive than the sun.
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Frontiers of Science Fellow, Columbia University
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Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
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Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
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