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Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica.

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Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

"This summer, a cardboard box in our basement containing a jigsaw puzzle got soaked. The box lid, showing the final ...

Snow isn't always white; algae can make it look green, red, or orange, and scientists are trying to understand how and why these colorful patches appear.