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  • A green caterpillar raises its head from the palm of a person's hand.

    Why is that caterpillar looking at me?

    September 05, 2024

    On a trip to Quartz Lake, visitor to Alaska Garrett Ast once plucked a caterpillar from a twig. As Garrett held it in his palm, the caterpillar reared up and -- with two sparkling baby blues -- looked him right in the eye.

  • A man in a red life jacket and a mosquito headnet holds a portable computer tablet over a rock on the side of a river. A yellow raft full of gear is moored to the riverbank below.

    The lost world of northern dinosaurs

    August 30, 2024

    On a recent river trip in northern Alaska, scientists from the University of Alaska Museum of the North found a lost world, a time of "polar forests with reptiles running around in them."

  • Two men stand on a rock outcropping overlooking mountain valley with a river.

    The galloping glacier's recent dramas

    August 23, 2024

    In 1937, what scientists call a "surging" glacier was rumbling across the valley toward a roadhouse along a major Alaska highway. That mountain of ice advanced upon the log structure at more than 100 feet each day.

  • Sensor installation at Antarctica

    UAF receives funding to enhance nuclear proliferation detection

    August 20, 2024

    The 久久热视频 has been named to a group of 12 universities tasked by the federal government with improving and expanding the nation's detection of nuclear weapons proliferation.

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