An independent panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on Saturday to recommend vaccinating all children in the age group with one of two separate COVID-19 vaccines.
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Millions of pounds of fiber cable are en route to Unalaska to bring high speed internet to the region
The Aleutians Fiber Project will run from Kodiak along the south side of the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutians.
What does a black hole sound like? NASA has an answer
For the first time in history, earthlings can hear what a black hole sounds like: a low-pitched groaning, as if a very creaky heavy door was being opened again and again.
Citizen science program uses artificial intelligence to track thousands of humpback whales
Through photographs shared by whale watchers, Happy Whale has recorded thousands of whales that travel to and from Alaska.
Alaska Volcano Observatory reclassifies Mt. Edgecumbe as ‘historically active’
A lot of people in Sitka have become used to describing Mt. Edgecumbe as “dormant,” but that term really isn’t used by geologists.
Native organizations win $35M grant to bring broadband home
It’s the largest grant awarded by the new federal Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.
Earth’s atmosphere could be one source of water on the moon, UAF study finds
Researchers estimate that the moon’s poles could contain about as much water as Lake Huron.
Southeast Alaska gillnetters are part of a national study on commercial fishing and sleep
There’s a lot of research on sleep deprivation and shift workers like truckers, but there’s nearly nothing on fishermen.
Broadband bill passes Alaska House committee
The bill creates a broadband office, sets up an advisory board and a broadband “parity fund” to equalize costs.
No, Mt. Edgecumbe is not about to blow, scientists say
The Alaska Volcano Observatory reports that a swarm of small earthquakes occurred somewhere deep below the iconic crater beginning on April 11 — but it’s too early to tell if that signals an eruption could be on the way.