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Video
(3min 47sec),
16 Dec 2013:
As the Akademik Shokalskiy approaches the Antarctic coastline, the landscape changes dramatically. The sea becomes becalmed as it fills with pack ice
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16 Dec 2013: Up close, the cracks in an iceberg shine with an electric blue light. Later, when we take boats in among the ice floes, we encounter inquisitive Adelie penguins and a crabeater seal lazing in the sun
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13 Dec 2013:
Researchers on the Akademic Shokalskiy drop hi-tech equipment over the side to measure the water temperature up to a kilometre down – and discover a curious anomaly
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12 Dec 2013: Ravaged by hunters in the 19th century, Macquarie Island is now home to tens of thousands of penguins and is carefully protected from biological contamination brought by human visitors
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11 Dec 2013: On board ship, everything that can move, moves. But we're finally getting our sea legs, reports Alok Jha in his latest dispatch
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10 Dec 2013:
Guardian science correspondent Alok Jha and documentary filmmaker Laurence Topham familiarise themselves with the ship that will be their home in the coming weeks on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
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10 Dec 2013: Alok Jha: In one of the remotest places on Earth, a scientist is measuring for the first time the concentration of plastic particles that can float on the sea surface for hundreds or even thousands of years
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9 Dec 2013:
Alok Jha: Walking around the ship has been like trying to race across a bouncy castle, and gravity has been playing tricks
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5 Dec 2013:
Alok Jha: Even in temperatures of -20C you can wear too many clothes – but expect to spend a small fortune on hi-tech fabrics
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Video
(3min 16sec),
5 Dec 2013:
Before embarking on his epic voyage to Antarctica, Guardian science correspondent Alok Jha presents a personal fashion guide to extreme cold weather clothing – from base layers to balaclavas
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Interactive,
4 Dec 2013:
On Sunday, scientists will begin re-tracing geologist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson's ill-fated 1911-13 expedition to the eastern Antarctic
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4 Dec 2013:
Alok Jha: On an Antarctic expedition 100 years ago, Douglas Mawson endured one of the most horrific journeys in the history of exploration
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4 Dec 2013: Geologist almost lost his life mapping unknown Antarctic regions in 'the Edwardian equivalent of space travel'
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4 Dec 2013:
The Guardian will be blogging, tweeting and sending pictures and video from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
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Audio
(57min 56sec),
2 Dec 2013:
What happens to space-time at very short distances? Following the discovery of a Higgs boson earlier this year, theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed and author Graham Farmelo tackle the next great questions physicists must answer
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