Researchers estimate that the moon’s poles could contain about as much water as Lake Huron.
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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.
Scientists say they can explain the giant, glowing orb seen over Interior Alaska last week
A Fairbanks photographer captured video of a foggy ball of light that was far larger than a full moon and moved slowly from the northeast to the southwest.
Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program to expand its high school program to Juneau
The program’s Acceleration Academy allows students to earn both a high school diploma and a bachelor’s degree in five years.
Volunteers help monitor Cook Inlet’s endangered belugas
The first observation this year was March 10 — a mom and a calf on the river.
The Aleutians have a rat problem. Scientists are trying to solve it.
For millions of years, birds lived nearly predator-free on the Aleutian Islands. Then came the rats.
Scientists are studying what extreme drought looks like in Alaska’s temperate rainforest
Heat threatened salmon hatcheries. Berries were sparse. And an insect called the Hemlock sawfly ate the needles off half a million acres of trees in the Tongass.
US and Russian scientists are still working together to solve salmon mysteries
Scientists are hoping to map out the distribution of salmon across the North Pacific using new DNA techniques.