ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program is hosting 52 students from the Bering Strait School District at its April Middle School Academy. Aimed at developing an early interest in science, engineering, technology and math, Middle School Academies create hands-on learning opportunities for students, such as the windmill challenge, that demonstrate how a degree in […]
The Alaska Volcano Observatory has reported an explosion and a small ash cloud emission from Mount Cleveland on the Aleutian Chain on Friday. The reported ash cloud reached an elevation of 22,000 feet and is drifting to the southeast according to their report. The seismic activity was registered just before 10 pm on Friday evening. The […]
Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size — by way of extinction — at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, says a new study published in the journal Science. Elephant-dwarfing wooly mammoths, elephant-sized ground sloths and various saber-toothed cats highlighted the array of […]
The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems. A new study by a team including astrophysicists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, calculated how this visitor from outside our solar system fits into what we know […]