Scientists are hoping to map out the distribution of salmon across the North Pacific using new DNA techniques.
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Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why
Treatments ranging from music to poetry to visual arts still have not undergone rigorous scientific testing. Artists and brain scientists have launched an initiative called the NeuroArts Blueprint to change that.
Scientists use drones to count Chukchi Sea walruses without disturbing them
U.S. and Russian scientists are using less invasive technology to get a more complete survey of the walrus population in the Bering Strait region.
Mercury levels in Stellar sea lion pups are rising. Researchers look to the past to find out why
A new research project is building a timeline of mercury levels in the Aleutian Islands over the last few thousand years.
Why NASA’s new space telescope is pointed at the Big Dipper
Cooling the telescope to about minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit will let it see objects that are far more distant and faint than what the Hubble telescope can see.
Nation’s sole heavy icebreaker returns to Antarctica to resupply American scientists
Each year, the crew maneuvers the nearly 400-foot, 13,000-ton icebreaker to cut a channel to McMurdo Station, the U.S. Antarctic Program’s logistics hub.