Science & Tech

Satellite and webcam footage revealed small deposits of ash near the summit, but the ash cloud stayed below 10,000 feet.  

Residents of Western Alaska villages pay several hundreds of dollars a month for data speeds that max out at 10 Mbps.

Some Y-K Delta residents say that the high cost of internet access is not even the main problem. In some cases, there is no internet regardless of how much people are willing to pay.

A dime-sized fragment of dog bone — more than ten-thousand years old — has given researchers new clues about how domesticated dogs first made their way to the Americas.

It took two years for Camp Denali to install its new 90-kilowatt array at the end of the Park Road, near Wonder Lake.

While temperatures of 40 below zero might send most of us to our couches, Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge biologist Mark Ross grabbed his recorder and some water.

Researchers have found a way to determine the ages of living Cook Inlet belugas using skin samples.

Alaska already sequences a large proportion of its positive coronavirus tests compared to other states, but officials say they’re aiming to do even better.

The National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic initiative looks at the effects of a warming climate on Arctic communities. But some in the field believe NSF isn’t doing enough to involve Indigenous people who live there.

Historically, local jobs in the STEM field have not gone to St. Paul residents — a problem the project manager says the grant could help with.