Alan Alda's 2003 visit and the Alaska messengers

November 24, 2022

Alan Alda, the actor and host of PBS television's "Scientific American Frontiers," recently traveled to Alaska on a mission to interview scientists about the changing North.
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Satellite launch means continued timely information for Alaskans

November 11, 2022

Thursday's launch of an environmental satellite aboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California might not register as a big thing for Alaskans, but it is.
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Juneau events showcase music on the science of climate change

November 04, 2022

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have teamed up with the Juneau Composers Consortium and Con Brio Chamber Series for a unique program of original musical works that interpret climate research.
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750 miles per day for 11 days, no rest

November 04, 2022

A bird the size of your fist has made humans all over the world marvel at the things we can't do. Like fly. For 11 days straight, from Alaska to Tasmania, your toes not touching earth or water.
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UAF, Explore.org launch live muskox webcam

November 02, 2022

The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the live nature cam network Explore.org have launched the network's first live webcam stream dedicated to one of the Arctic's most iconic animals: the muskox.
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Research provides details of possible NASA moon landing sites

October 28, 2022

A University of Alaska Fairbanks postdoctoral researcher has helped NASA better understand two of the possible landing sites for the space agency's Artemis program to land humans at the moon's south pole and establish a sustainable base camp there.
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What lives in frozen soil for 25,000 years?

October 28, 2022

Standing in the 29-degree air outside a building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, Josephine Galipon held a pinkie-size vial that may have held tiny organisms locked in a coma for thousands of years.
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Home insulation from wood and fungus

October 21, 2022

A few Alaska researchers are working to create insulation that removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it for the life of a building and beyond.
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HAARP to begin largest set of experiments at its new observatory

October 17, 2022

Thirteen experiments to be conducted over 10 days at HAARP.
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The man who knew moose like no other

October 14, 2022

Vic Van Ballenberghe died on Sept. 22, 2022, at the age of 78. The man who knew moose better than perhaps anyone else on Earth had stood amid their knobby legs for many springs and falls in Interior Alaska.
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