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- June 24, 2009
- Interview: Living it up at the South Pole: Vladimir Papitashvili has spent his working life in the Earth's most frigid places. But today, as head scientist at the US's new "station-on-legs" at the South Pole, he spends his days in comparative luxury. As Antarctic midwinter approaches, he tells Anil Ananthaswamy about his adventures and how he helped remove an appendix on the Antarctic ice sheet
- Jerri FitzGerald, Who Treated Herself at South Pole, Dies at 57: Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, a doctor who treated herself for breast cancer for months while stationed at the South Pole in 1999 and then when the weather thawed a bit was flown out in a daring rescue mission, died Tuesday at her home in Southwick, Mass. She was 57.
- June 19, 2009
- June 18, 2009
- So You Want My Job: Antarctic Driller/Researcher: Today we feature a man who took a job thousands of miles away from home, and the ordinary. Steve Faulkner spent 5 weeks at the bottom of the world, the South Pole, for one super cool science project.
- May 17, 2009
- Trapping space ghosts: Born of exploding stars and violent cosmic collisions, neutrinos streak through space -- and planets -- at the speed of light.
- May 3, 2009
- The muon shadow of the Moon: Astronomers typically use photons of some sort to figure out what's happening up there. Sure, some astronomers look for cosmic rays (which are not rays but in fact charged particles like protons), and eventually, gravitational waves are going to be important.
