Apparently nothing is safe from online trolls. The Natural Environment Research Council is finding this out the hard way after deciding to let the internet vote on the name of an under construction $300 million Antarctic research vessel. The name currently in the lead? Boaty McBoatface. As far as ...

According to the NASA study recently published in the Journal of Glaciology, Antarctica's ice mass increased 112 billion tons per year from 1992 to 2001 and 82 billion tons per year from 2003 to 2008. From nasa.gov: "The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the ...