Rural High School Students Complete Four-Year Geology Program
Image: GeoFORCE Alaska students display their completed geologic maps of a portion of Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. The maps show rock types in different colors. Photo by Leif…
Scent Brings Songbirds to the Yard
Chickadees are interested in scents. That’s the news from a study out of Lehigh University, the first to document naturally hybridizing songbirds’ preference for the smell of their own…
Air Pollution can Accelerate Lung Disease as Much as a Pack a Day ofCigarettes
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study led by the University…
University of Alaska and Governor Dunleavy Reach Budget Agreement
Agreement Includes Multi-Year Step Down in Funding, Totaling Reductions of $70 Million Over Three Years (Anchorage, AK) – The University of Alaska and Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy have reached…
New NOAA App Brings Earth and Space Animations to your Phone
Free Tool Helps Teachers, Students Understand The Earth An enormous earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded, rocked southern Chile on May 22, 1960 and created a tsunami that…
Mega-Cloud from Canadian Wildfires Will Help Model Impacts of Nuclear War
British Columbia wildfires in 2017 created a massive cloud that circled the Northern Hemisphere Photo: An enormous cloud of smoke from intense wildfires drifted over northern Canada on…
Anatomy of a Cosmic Seagull
Colourful and wispy, this intriguing collection of objects is known as the Seagull Nebula, named for its resemblance to a gull in flight. Made up of dust, hydrogen, helium…
50 Years Ago: One Small Step, One Giant Leap
Words such as these were emblazoned in dozens of languages on the front page of newspapers around the world, echoing the first part of President John F. Kennedy’s bold…
