Due to Antarctica's extreme winter, which includes four months of total darkness, polar explorers endured intense confinement in close quarters for long periods of time.
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Members of a polar research expedition have provided researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development with an opportunity to study the effects of social isolation ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Psychologists are working with professional adventurers to find out how teams cope with a 500 mile Arctic trip in temperatures of minus 60C.
Jan 24, 2018
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It's a natural laboratory for studying heart disease, lung problems, muscle loss, sleeping disorders and new medical technologies. It's also the highest mountain in the world. Mount Everest's extreme altitude puts climbers ...
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