At the edge of Antarctica’s Taylor Glacier, a bright red stream pours out onto stark white ice, looking uncannily like blood. Known as Blood Falls, this phenomenon has unsettled explorers and puzzled ...

Deep in the white continent, in the icy desert where the frigid summer wind whips at the snow and the midnight sun hangs low in the sky but never sets, a single splash of color draws the eye. A ...

It’s a striking feature that looks straight out of a winter horror movie. This week, we’re breaking down the science behind the aptly-named “Blood Falls” of Antarctica. * Not hard to see how it earned ...

In 1911, Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor discovered the Blood Falls—an odd, blood-red flow of saltwater seeping out from the tip of East Antarctica. Researchers later confirmed the color ...