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Chemistry World August 2008	Cold chemistry Intrepid researchers will brave the harshest conditions in the name of science. Ned Stafford talks to some of Antarctica's chemists
Wired April 2000 Oliver Morton	Ice Station Vostok The fast track to the moons of Jupiter - and the key to life on Earth - is a prehistoric lake nearly three miles beneath the Antarctic ice cap.
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb	Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al.	Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.
Popular Mechanics July 29, 2008 Rand Simberg	The Uncertain Future of the International Space Station: Analysis The International Space Station isn't scheduled to be completed for two more years, but a growing chorus of engineers and executives is already brainstorming about what to do with the ISS after its life span ends in 2015.
Popular Mechanics April 7, 2009 Garriott & Garriott	Experiments in Space: Richard and Owen Garriott on How Private Space Flights Can Advance Important Science Like astronauts, Richard was involved with scientific research, in collaboration with state agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, as well as nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy.
Wired July 2002 Michael Behar	Cold Rush Long hours. Subfreezing winds. months of absolute darkness. Welcome to the South Pole, where the coolest science outpost on earth is being built atop 9,000 feet of solid ice. The area is a benchmark for monitoring the health of the atmosphere and an ideal site for studying astronomy.
Popular Mechanics February 19, 2010 Trevor Williams	On Thick Ice: Live From An Antarctic Drilling Trip The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is exploring the ocean floor around Antarctica to learn how the ice sheet reacted in warmer climates of the past and how they might respond to future warming.
Chemistry World August 14, 2014 Ned Stafford	Research on ice at British Antarctic base A power outage has halted research at the Halley Research Station in Antarctica and might not start again for the remainder of the Antarctic winter in order to conserve power for heating the station.
Popular Mechanics November 20, 2008 Andrew Moseman	For 10th Anniversary, 10 Headaches and Near-Mishaps on the International Space Station It's not the fault of any single mishap, but today is the space station's 10th birthday and it's still not fully assembled.
Geotimes March 2006 Lisa Rossbacher	Can You Hear me Now? The world of communication is completely different from what the early explorers of this continent experienced -- one full of constant connection.
Fast Company December 2009 Anne C. Lee	Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50 On the first of December 1959, 12 nations signed a pact freezing territorial claims and banning military activity in Antarctica. Here's a tour.
Outside November 2001 Rob Buchanan	Beat the Crowds. Antarctica Now. As the Last Cool Place becomes an adventure-travel magnet, the scientists and bureaucrats who run the show are feeling crowded. Is this big, beautiful continent big enough for everybody?
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Spencer Klein	IceCube: The Polar Particle Hunter Searching Antarctica for the frozen paths of cosmic-ray neutrinos
Chemistry World November 2, 2012 Patrick Walter	British Antarctic Survey merger binned A controversial plan to merge the UK's British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanographic Center has been scrapped.
Outside February 2007 Jason Daley	Shelf Life Welcome to Halley VI, the swankiest address this side of Dronning Maud Land.
Salon.com June 7, 2001 Amy Standen	My own private space station Robert Bigelow has his funding priorities straight: Orbiting cruise ships and paranormal research...
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.
Wired September 22, 2008 Damon Tabor	Scientists May Soon Outnumber Penguins at Earth's Poles Tens of thousands of scientists are zipping up their parkas for the latest International Polar Year initiative.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Guterl & Heger	Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not
Fast Company October 1999 Curtis Sittenfeld	Leader on the Edge World-renowned explorer Robert Swan is the first person ever to walk to both the North and South Poles. Now he's teaching businesspeople about leadership under life-and-death conditions.
Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash	Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought.
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams	Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.
Popular Mechanics March 11, 2009 Tom Jones	An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory.
Fast Company March 2014 Jon Gertner	Why Companies Are Lining Up To Test Golf Clubs (And Other Products) On The Space Station Since its launch the space station has mainly served as a place in which astronauts from NASA and foreign space agencies conduct experiments involving health and the physical sciences. It was never intended to help private companies improve their products and market share.
Popular Mechanics June 8, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Vaccines in Space: Taking Biotech to Microgravity Labs Astronauts pursued a commercial drug experiment aimed at finding a vaccine against a deadly staph infection besetting hospitals.
Chemistry World January 23, 2013	Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work
Geotimes February 2005 Martin & Case	Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA: We're Leaving The Space Station To The Private Sector Due to a combination of government budget cuts and declining costs for the private sector, private space companies have increasingly taken over space exploration and logistics for the U.S.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Tom Jones	Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space.
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009	The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station.
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown	NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.
Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt	Antarctic Ice Connections The West Antarctic ice sheet contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice. Were it to collapse due to global warming, it would raise global sea level by 5 meters, catastrophically inundating low-lying areas.
Geotimes September 2007 Megan Sever	Live Earth: Scientists Rock Antarctica A band called Nunatak, composed of five Antarctic researchers, performed outside in single-digit temperatures as part of the Live Earth concert series.
IndustryWeek September 14, 2011	Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.'
Popular Mechanics December 2006 Thomas D. Jones	Tech Watch: Resident Astronaut To cut costs, NASA plans to outsource its shipping jobs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale	Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert	Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Longer polar ice record Geoscientists have beefed up a dataset documenting ice cover at Earth's poles, revealing a longer and slightly different picture than painted in the past by satellite observations.
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier	Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom.
Popular Mechanics November 15, 2007 Thomas D. Jones	High-Wire DIY Can Save the Space Station: Resident Astronaut The space station is giving us a graduate-level course in how people and machines can survive in space for the long term.
Popular Mechanics January 6, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Olivier L. de Weck	What To Pack For Mars A successful mission requires a well-planned supply strategy
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven member crew lifted off, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. The launch follows a 13-day delay after a faulty fuel sensor halted the first launch attempt during countdown.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars.
Outside February 2004 Natasha Singer	Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality.
Popular Mechanics April 18, 2006 Ken Kamler	Voyage to Aquarius Over three miles off the coast of Florida, robots are going to med school 67 ft. underwater in NOAA's Aquarius underwater laboratory. A reports on the advances in telerobotic space medicine.