Nuclear radiation health experts from Oregon State University say the trash from last year's Japanese earthquake and tsunami won't be radioactive when it arrives in Alaska.
The answer -- according to a recent symposium at a national science conference -- may challenge Alaskans’ long-held assumptions about the ethics of harvesting certain species of marine mammals.
NASA is offering as much as $1,200 for the location of parts from rockets launched at Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska's Interior, the same launch facility that shot a rocket Saturday to explore the aurora.
After it was buried in the Siberian tundra during the the ice age 30,000 years ago, scientists have pulled off the oldest successful regeneration of a living plant from ancient tissue.
Stephanie Pappas | The Christian Science Monitor
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Feb 21, 2012
Organic grit from human activities -- preserved by glaciers for centuries and now flushing into the ocean in a colossal regional meltdown -- may be fueling the marine food web of the Gulf of Alaska and other coastal ecosystems in unprecedented ways, a new study says.
A NASA-funded collaborative research team launched a rocket Feb. 18 from Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range to collect data from the heart of the aurora some 202 miles above Earth.
Scientists launched a NASA sounding rocket from Poker Flat Research Range into a brilliant aurora display on Saturday. Alaska Dispatch has collected the best photos of the launch and northern lights.
In fall 2009, three tiny Alaskan songbirds took an amazing three-month journey that began northeast of Fairbanks and ended 9,000 miles away, amid arid grasslands of the southern Sudan.
