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While swimmer Diana Nyad has her skeptics, friends and the filmmakers behind Netflix's 'Nyad' (starring Annette Bening) have no doubts about her feat.

He’s been a rally driver; a mountaineer; a long-distance walker; a marathon runner; a world traveller; a Game of Thrones extra; a charity fundraiser and a pioneering businessman but Stewart Barbour from Belfast still has a bucket list of things he’d like to do now that he’s hit 70.

In 1987, Ian Dalziel, a professor and senior research scientist at the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Institute for Geophysics, was flying over the Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica’s interior. He was admiring the majestic outcropping of rock towering above the desolate landscape, when he found his mind wandering back to the geology of the southwestern United […]

James Linden Hogg has a few irons in the fire.

A Toast to Sustainability and the Arts

Dynamic Positioning and Moon Pools: a close look at the tech behind the RRS Sir David Attenborough research vessel.

An Abertay University lecturer is gearing up for an epic journey which will see her retrace the voyage of the RRS Discovery.

For the 'Free Solo' directors, making 'Nyad' was much harder than hanging off the side of a mountain.

Oscar-winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi made their first scripted feature with the wholly committed and utterly ripped Annette Bening and Jodie Foster.

Expedition to follow in Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps across South Georgia