Discover how the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, survives extreme cold through unique adaptations.

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

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

developed and issued two guiding documents to serve as roadmaps for this effort: the 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic ...

Building Biospheric reimagines architecture as a living organishm - a structure that breathes, grows, and sustains life. The task is to design a self-sustaining, biospheric architectural complex that ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

There is an “icebreaker gap” between Russia and the United States. For decades, the Soviet Union and now Russia have ...

BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research stations in the Antarctic, ...

Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...

Antarctica, the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on Earth, may seem inhospitable, but it is home to a mesmerizing ...

Research scientists in remote locations need to get creative in order to follow their favorite teams, even when they don’t ...

The project is conducted by the MAI department of ecology, life-sustaining systems and life activity safety jointly with the Antarctic research station. "The research data will lay the foundation for ...