Heat at a mild temperature for several months and voilà: ancient microbial life, good as new.

The next computing frontier might be right above our heads.

The winners are John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for work on quantum tunneling in superconducting circuits.

The atmospheric phenomenon is much prettier from low-Earth orbit.

And there could be a lot more down there.

But not everyone is convinced.

It turns out, Endurance was never the “strongest polar ship of its time.”

Endurance, the wooden ship that Ernest Shackleton took to Antarctica in 1915, wasn’t built to withstand frozen seas…