Polar

The British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) polar research vessel RSS Sir David Attenborough came a step closer to going into service this week as its power systems came online for the first time and its advanced lifeboats were commissioned.

Venturi Automobiles has made a name for itself blazing electric-vehicle trails over hot salt and hot race track, but it's about to crank down the temperature. It has revealed its all-electric Antarctica polar exploration vehicle and is preparing to bring it down to the world's loneliest continent.

NASA is preparing to launch a new tool into orbit that will bounce lasers off polar ice to finely monitor elevation changes over time, providing new insights into not only the severity of climate change, but how it is directly impacting seal level rise. ​

A fitness tracker is the perfect gift for the holiday season, for treating someone else or treating yourself – what better way to start tackling your New Year resolutions? These are the best fitness trackers we've seen launched this year, as wearables get smarter, smaller, and more diverse.

Polar is seriously old-school in the fitness tracking market, having launched a wireless, wearable heart rate monitor back in 1982. Now the company is diving into the smartwatch world with an Android Wear watch boasting its latest proprietary optical pulse monitoring tech and on-board GPS.

​The Cassini spacecraft has captured a stunningly detailed view of the "dark eye" of Saturn's vast south polar vortex, a feature so large that it could comfortably swallow planet Earth.

With its new A360 fitness tracker, Polar has added a splash of color to a device designed ​to offer 24/7 activity tracking, convenient wrist-based heart rate monitoring and smartwatch-like notifications​.

Even the most dedicated fitness buff can benefit from reminders to stay active, which is one of the new features of the Polar’s latest activity tracker. We get some wrist-on experience with the Loop 2 to see how well this device measures up.

A team of scientists from MIT has put forward a theory that would explain the presence of enormous polar cyclones present on the gas giant Saturn. The research may lead to better characterization of the atmosphere of distant exoplanets.

In what could lead to new ultrathin insulation, researchers at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco found that radiation plays a larger role than conduction in the insulation of polar animals such as penguins and polar bears than previously believed.

NASA's solar-powered GROVER will take to Greenland's ice sheet on Friday, where it will spend a month analyzing the accumulation of snow and how this contributes to the ice sheet over time.

Scientists have accidentally discovered that the atmosphere on Venus is 60 percent thinner than expected by measuring drag of the Venus Express satellite.