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Will Smith pushes himself to the limit in National Geographic's new docuseries 'Pole to Pole'

Five years in the making, "Pole to Pole with Will Smith" follows the Oscar-winning actor's journey through the planet's most extreme environments from the South Pole to the North Pole. The 57-year-old celebrity travels across all seven continents, taking him from the icefields of Antarctica to the jungles of the Amazon, the mountains of the Himalayas, the deserts of Africa, the islands of the Pacific and the icebergs of the Arctic.

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Science

fromBig Think

5 days ago

What Earth's most extreme places teach us about being human

Deep-ocean, high-mountain, and space exploration produce intense feelings of awe through extreme environments, sensory limits, and confronting vastness.

OMG science

fromNature

7 months ago

Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life

The book explores unique microorganisms living under extreme conditions on Earth.

fromArs Technica

7 months ago

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars

Our study is the first to demonstrate that the metabolism of the fungal partner in lichen symbiosis was active while being in a Mars-like environment.