Picking up infrasound could help Alaska Department of Transportation to track high mountain avalanches that often go undetected.
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NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a year
Applications are live for NASA’s next four-person cohort to live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility.
Alaska Volcano Observatory fully activates monitoring network for Sitka’s Mount Edgecumbe
A 2010 research paper noted evidence of an ash eruption about 1,150 years ago, including deposits in Sitka Sound.
Scientists may have found a reservoir of magma in Interior Alaska
For years, scientists have wondered why North America’s highest mountain is not a volcano.
A 1783 eruption in Iceland may have been catastrophic for northwest Alaska, scientists say
For eight months in 1783, Laki volcano spewed lava and belched noxious fumes into the atmosphere. One-quarter of Iceland’s population died.
A pair of earthquakes near Glacier Bay shook Southeast Alaska on Friday
Two quakes above magnitude 5 were felt lightly in places as far away as Juneau and Whitehorse. Smaller aftershocks continued through the weekend — about 40 so far.
Thanks, Neanderthals: How our ancient relatives could help find new antibiotics
No, this isn’t Jurassic Park level de-extinction. Yes, scientists are using machine learning to mine therapeutic molecules from our extinct relatives.
Scientists baffled by golden orb found in Gulf of Alaska
“I’m not even sure that that was the most interesting thing on that dive,” the expedition coordinator said.
100 million years ago, dinosaurs left clues about how they lived in Interior Alaska
The most common footprints found were from plant-eating dinosaurs that made three-toed prints, but there were also some prints left by a four-toed, armored ankylosaur.
Local stories mean Yukon River ‘treasure trove’ is more than just a lot of dinosaur footprints
It has been more than a decade since researchers first announced that they’d found dinosaur footprints along the middle section of the Yukon River. And when that team did make their discovery public, they also said that it was unlikely that people who live along the river even knew dinosaur footprints littered the riverbanks near them. But…