A University of Cambridge project restores thousands of rare and fragile images — spanning more than 150 years of polar exploration — using state-of-the-art digital technologies.

Visual artist Andrea Wollensak, professor of art and director of Conn’s Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, and computer scientist Bridget Baird, professor emerita in computer science and ...

The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery of the South Pole. (See "Cold Fires Up Arctic Adventurer," fall 2007.) Amundsen is one of my heroes. In ...

Flipping between a harrowing polar exploration and a woman’s struggles for independence in 1910, “Terra Nova” hinges on the motifs that connect the two storylines: art, hunger and guilt.

Polar exploration was the Victorian equivalent of the space race. Major powers vied to outdo each other, funding expeditions to the most inhospitable parts of the world as demonstrations of their ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Lesson of the Queen Elizabeth , Light Reading for Polar Explorers, and more” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 112 No. 12 (March ...