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How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change

Two BYU researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze.

Icebreakers Clear Channel into McMurdo Station

U.S. and Russian icebreakers have cleared a path through the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to allow the annual resupply of McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's logistics hub in Antarctica. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star and the Russian icebreaker Krasin escorted the U.S. Navy fuel tanker USNS Paul Buck to the ice pier at McMurdo Station in late January to unload its cargo. The tanker unloaded about eight million gallons of fuel in 48 hours. The Paul Buck left McMurdo on Jan. 31.

NASA Balloon Makes Record-Breaking Flight

Flying near the edge of space, a NASA scientific balloon broke the flight record for duration and distance. It soared for nearly 42 days, making three orbits around the South Pole. The record-breaking balloon, almost as large as one and one half football fields, carried the Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) experiment. CREAM is designed to explore the supernova acceleration limit of cosmic rays, the relativistic gas of protons, electrons and heavy nuclei arriving at Earth from outside the solar system.

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Iceberg poses no threat to Antarctic personnel

National Science Foundation (NSF) officials said today that iceberg B-15A is not blocking access to McMurdo Station, the U. S. logistics hub for much of the nation's research activity in Antarctica, contradicting widely circulated reports to the contrary.

How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change

Icebreakers Clear Channel into McMurdo Station

NASA Balloon Makes Record-Breaking Flight

Iceberg poses no threat to Antarctic personnel

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