Last year director James Cameron took his Challenger sub on a record-setting dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. And two days ago, on the one-year anniversary of that epic adventure, Cameron donated the submersible to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in a bid to spur more underwater exploration and research. Cameron spent seven [ more... ]

Lake Whillans is a 30-square-mile body of water that sits on the edge of the Ross Ice shelf in West Antarctica. But it also sits under 800 meters of ice, so scientists, including John Priscu from Montana State University, had to devise a way to drill through the ice without also contaminating the liquid water [ more... ]

Two days ago Roland Krueger became the first German to solo ski to the South Pole, and it sure didn’t sound easy. He skied for 64 days straight pulling a 286-pound sledge, often making as little as ten miles a day battling monster sastrugi — huge, overhead-high frozen waves of snow. Krueger was often forced [ more... ]

Brit Richard Parks – creator of the 737 Challenge and the first person to climb the seven summits and stand on all three “poles” within seven months had another audacious plan up his 8,000-fill-down-covered sleeve. He wanted to solo ski to the South Pole. Too bad the mailman didn’t get the memo. Parks got to [ more... ]

This sure beats the time you found your house by looking at Google Street View: A North Carolina-based satellite archaeology researcher has found two different sites in Egypt containing what appear to be remnants of pyramid complexes similar to the Great Pyramids of Giza (of Seven Wonders of the Ancient World fame). One of the [ more... ]