Science in the Extremes

The ocean's mysterious "Twilight Zone" has been visited less than the moon.

A field team of wildlife biologists reveal what it's like to work up close with wild grizzly bears.

Scientists do some underwater investigation to determine if swimming with great white sharks can rewire your brain's response to fear.

This Antarctic biologist braves subzero temperatures to study creatures below the ice.

We've discovered only half the arachnids on Earth -- this scientist is searching for the rest.

These scientists jumped into holes in the jungle floor and discovered a massive new ecosystem.

Extremophiles that thrive in the Atacama Desert could survive life on Mars. Scientists reveal what the driest place on Earth can tell us about life on the Red Planet.

Life from these acidic underwater volcanoes could survive on Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon.

Dr. George Pantalos and his team pioneer futuristic surgical tools for operations on astronauts and test them on NASA's zero-gravity plane.

Millions of tardigrades and other species could go undiscovered when rain forests disappear.

Seventy years after nuclear tests in the Pacific, these islands are still radioactive.

This team designs custom gliding robots to collect vital data from the depths beneath diminishing ice.

When these divers accidentally uncovered an enormous world of neon nightlife underwater, they knew we had to engineer a way to see like a shark.