A bulky shape drifted through dim water nearly half a kilometer below the Antarctic surface, moving slowly over a pale seabed ...

You might be chilly right now, but that doesn't mean the world is getting colder.

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean.

The slow pacing becomes frenetic as the different threads of the novel converge, making it impossible to distinguish what is real and what isn’t, let alone to decide whether this novel is primarily ...