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Perseverance Probe Successfully Lands on Mars

By VOA on Feb 19, 2021   Featured, National, National/World, Science/Education  

Perseverance Probe Successfully Lands on Mars

 NASA’s Perseverance probe landed safely and on time on Mars, at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, marking another success for the U.S. space agency. The nuclear-powered probe made its way through a harrowing landing process, deemed by some engineers as “seven minutes of terror” because it involves parachutes, powered descent and a “sky crane” that […]

Mystery of the Dancing Wires Revealed

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Feb 13, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Mystery of the Dancing Wires Revealed

On these quiet, still days, as winter plods on, Alaskans tend to notice any movement outside their windows, such as dancing power wires strung between poles. The answer as to why the wires bounce is in Neil Davis’s “Alaska Science Nuggets.” First, though, a refresher on that book — a compilation of 400 of these […]

Bowhead whales: A recent success story

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 29, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Bowhead whales: A recent success story

Bowhead whales are true northern creatures, swimming only in cold oceans off Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Svalbard and Russia. These bus-size whales have the largest mouths in the animal kingdom, can live for 200 years and can go without eating for more than a year due to their remarkable fat reserves. Bowheads are also a rare […]

Have questions about COVID-19? Join an ECHO call.

By Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on Jan 13, 2021   Events/Notices, Featured, Health  

Have questions about COVID-19? Join an ECHO call.

Here’s the COVID-19 ECHO schedule for the reminder of this week, Dec.13-15, 2021  WEDNESDAY • COVID-19 Science ECHO – for the general public, 12-1 pm. You can also tune in via Facebook Live, @alaskachdCOVID-1   THURSDAY • Healthcare Situational Awareness ECHO – for healthcare providers, 12-1 pm • Media ECHO, 1-1:45 pm. • Vaccine ECHO […]

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