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Alaska Science Forum: Bering Land Bridge wasn’t such a dry place
Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have…
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Alaska Science Forum: When the Civil War came to Alaska
About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were…
News
Five headless seals have washed up on Chilkat Valley beaches in the last few months; here’s possibly why
Local marine mammal hunter says the carcasses offer a glimpse into Alaska’s marine ecosystem.
Sports
Alaska Science Forum: The threat within an Alaska mountain
Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At…
Sports
Alaska Science Forum: Thirty years of writing about Alaska science
When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of…
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Alaska Science Forum: The first satellite’s Alaska connection
The first satellite’s Alaska connection
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Alaska Science Forum: More familiar news of the North
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I am once again elbow-to-elbow with thousands of scientists, at a meeting I first attended…
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Among butter clams, which pose toxin dangers to Alaska harvesters, size matters, study indicates
Higher concentrations found in bigger specimens, UAS researchers find of clams on beaches near Juneau.
Sports
Alaska Science Forum: Geologic hydrogen may be an answer
The internal combustion engine is less than 100 years old. Same for the technologies we have developed to…
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New Áakʼw Tá Hít building at UAS seeks state-of-the art science with traditional wisdom
Building that hosted ribbon-cutting Friday is first at Juneau campus with a primary name in Lingít.
News
TMHS grad Elizabeth Djajalie among 30 global contenders in $400,000 Khan Academy Challenge
Award includes $250K scholarship to winner, $50K for a teacher and $100K for high school STEM lab.
Sports
Alaska Science Forum: Number of Alaska glaciers is everchanging
A glaciologist once wrote that the number of glaciers in Alaska “is estimated at (greater than) 100,000.” That…
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Alaska Science Forum: Waiting for the sun at Poker Flat
POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — Under a bluebird sky and perched above a resilient winter snowpack, two sounding…
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Alaska Science Forum: On the ancient trail of a woolly mammoth
The female woolly mammoth was 20 years old when she stumbled amid the grasslands. She fell in a…
Sports
Alaska Science Forum: The coyotes of San Francisco
A person is bound to notice changes if he bicycles the same pathways for 20 years. Such is…
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Pushing to expand mariculture in Alaska (Part 2): The pearl in mariculture, for now, are the oysters
Shellfish is still small business, but on the rise as Alaska works to diversity food sources.
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Alaska Science Forum: The world according to a dog’s nose
A dog can tell you a lot about the outdoors. When a Lab vacuums the ground with her…
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Alaska Science Forum: Lakes hold signs of past earthquakes
ALLISON LAKE, ABOVE VALDEZ — Three men dressed in full raingear crept like ants across a bumpy green…
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Alaska Science Forum: Glaciers made of rock, ice and bear scat
The grizzly hadn’t seen my dog or me, so I yelled and waved my arms. The bear stood,…
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Juneau Icefield may be key to unlocking secrets of Jupiter ice moon
Researchers probe far beneath ice for clues to aid their search for extraterrestrial life