Click Here to Read: Bound for Antarctica: A Voyage to Earth’s End Is Underway By Raymond Zhong Graphics by Mira Rojanasakul in The New York Times on December 27, 2025.

The northern edge of the giant iceberg, B-15A, in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. NSF/Josh Landis, employee 1999-2001.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: This Robot is Tinier than a Grain of Salt:  Engineers had been trying to solve this problem for 40 years By Molly Glick on the Nautilus website on December 30, 2025.

An image of a grain of table salt taken using a scanning electron microscope.  Image: Chhe (talk)  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.