Antarctica looks like the set of a science fiction epic, a continent of jagged ice cliffs, neon auroras and endless white horizons. Yet by the strict standards scientists use, it is not just a frozen ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

Did you know that a region in Antarctica called McMurdo Dry Valleys haven't experienced rainfall for over two million years?

Credit: Allison Cusick Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at ...