To boost rankings, the government is creating "research poles" for universities and research centres to publish their findings jointly.
Very much pre-production, but I don't suppose I'm giving too much away if I say that I have been researching pole-dancing".
Snow and winds gusting to more than 45 miles an hour grounded two planes and delayed the rescue of a seriously ill man working at the United States' South Pole research station.
Scientific research at the pole has become so important that the National Science Foundation, which oversees polar programs, has committed $133 million to build the new station, which can house, feed, entertain and otherwise support 200 scientists and other workers.
A new millimeter/submillimeter-wave telescope is being constructed for deployment at the NSF South Pole research station.
Every February, after the scientists have left, a few dozen people hunker down to spend the long, dark austral winter at the Amundsen Scott South Pole research station operated by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Two sick workers were evacuated from the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station today and taken to the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera station on the Antarctic Peninsula.
(Incidentally, the record coldest temperature measured on Earth was at the Russian South Pole research station of Vostok, Antarctica (-128.6 deg. F) on July 21 , 1983.
VPCAR, Flynn admits, would have limited applications on Earth, although some aspects of it are being considered, including the evaporative portion of the system, which has been examined by the U.S. South Pole research station, which wants to purify its sewage such that it could be used to make an ice layer for the research station's runway.
The work of the inquiry has backed recent research pointing to Poles as the culprits.
Nearly 70 nations are spending about $1 billion on a global campaign of coordinated research at both poles.
