British Antarctic Survey researchers identified a massive buried granite body beneath West Antarctica, explaining pink ...

Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

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A lone penguin from Werner Herzog’s Antarctica documentary becomes a viral symbol of burnout. Here’s what it means and where ...

The philosophical conundrum is much subtler and more difficult. Jane Goodall not only observed the first use of tools by our primate cousins, the chimpanzees, but she also observed, to her horror, a ...

The “Nihilist Penguin” has become 2026’s first major viral sensation, turning a nearly 20-year-old documentary clip into an ...

Understanding the viral “nihilist penguin” story and the real science and psychology behind it Explore the conflict between ...

Dive into the story behind the 'nihilist penguin' meme and Trump's intriguing Greenland post. Uncover the meme's roots in a Herzog documentary and its symbolic resonance with modern existential themes ...

While the internet sees a hero, science sees an individual variation, a rare glitch in the natural order. Despite the ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

Unusual radio waves were discovered below the surface of Antarctica over a decade ago, which follow-up studies are trying to explain.