Scientists from Fairbanks, New Mexico and Japan have discovered the first reported fossilized tracks of a large four-toed bird that inhabited central Alaska 90 million to 120 million years ago. A description of the two tracks was published in August in a special edition of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin and presented […]
The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least 80,000 years. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, pronounced Choo-cheen-SHAHN-ATLAS, was discovered in January 2023 by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. The comet could have its best viewing for Alaskans throughout next week — weather permitting. Space physicists from […]
Work led by University of Alaska Fairbanks and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers shows that the effort to improve Fairbanks’ wintertime air quality by reducing the amount of primary sulfate in the atmosphere may not be as effective in the deep cold as intended. The research is published today in Science Advances, with UAF doctoral student […]
The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist who analyzed two major quakes in Alaska and California. The work was led by research assistant professor Társilo Girona of the UAF […]