(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

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

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

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.

The "unique" way Antarctica’s only native insect survives the extreme cold could help humans travel deep into space, ...

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

Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science Robert Northington had a paper he collaborated on titled “Abrupt transformation of West Greenland lakes ...

Hurtigruten's 500-passenger MS Trollfjord cruise ship is seen in its namesake fjord, the Trollford in northern Norway. (Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Express) ...

An Icy Expanse The Antarctic Desert may come as a surprise to many as it doesn't fit our conventional idea of sand and heat.

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...