USCG Research and Development Center Teams with Partner Agencies for Arctic Awareness
SEWARD, Alaska — For a second year, members of the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, based in New London,…
Coast Guard Cutter Healy Travels New Waters of Discovery
SEWARD, Alaska — The name “Healy” carries a lot of history in Alaska and the Arctic. It was Capt. Michael…
Physicists Create Water Tractor Beam
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that…
The Immediate Aftermath of an Oil Spill
The fate of oil during the first day after an accidental oil spill is still poorly understood, with researchers often…
Two Dozen Riders Trapped on Six Flags Roller-Coaster in Maryland
17 adults and seven children are trapped 45 feet above ground level on the Joker’s Jinx roller coaster at Six Fags…
Big Lake Plane Crash takes Life of Anchorage Man
Alaska State Troopers reported on the Trooper dispatch this morning of a plane crash at the Big Lake Airport at…
Rosetta Arrives at Target Comet
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft…
Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Niño cycles
The planet’s largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the next, the El Niño Southern…
Search Continues for Andrew John on Chena River in Fairbanks
The man who jumped in to the Chena River from the Steese Highway Bridge in Fairbanks with a friend on…
Search Ends with Success, Southeast Boater Found Alive and Well
After a two-day search for the man in a 16-foot skiff, Gus McConnell, who went missing while following a larger…