Micah Hahn, associate professor of environmental health in UAA’s Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, is the principal investigator and a co-author on a recently published study about involving A...

How does a sense of place impact how we view and understand the world around us? Philosophy major Hunter Thomas has spent a substantial amount of time thinking about these kinds of questions.

Can AI help protect Alaska’s coastal waters from marine oil spills? Postdoctoral researcher Mohamed Elsheref is the lead author on a scientific paper published last month looking at this question.

Is mercury harming sea otters in Kachemak Bay? UAA grad student Natalie Hunter investigated to fill data gaps on otters and provide baselines for the future.

M. S. I. Masum, a master’s student in civil engineering, is exploring new ways to treat wastewater — research that may hold the potential to benefit rural communities across Alaska, which often lack w...

A fossil octopus from Illinois’ Mazon Creek fossil beds turns out to be a nautiloid.

A farmer discovered a muskox skull in Washtenaw County back in 1915.

These bizarre egg-laying mammals just got even weirder.

Artemis II successfully launched for the Moon yesterday, but this seems like a side-story almost nobody is talking about.

How do we measure progress towards a goal like ‘becoming better’ at something? The ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus had an answer.

New Miocene ape discovered in Egypt

Web accessibility: are you using proper bulleted lists?

Evidence from Hong Kong shows that chemicals from LCD production are accumulating in body and brain tissues of dolphins and porpoises.

Triassic bipedal croc discovered in Petrified Forest National Park

Is pollution from space debris endangering our atmosphere?

Mosasaurs, long imagined as terrifying ocean predators, may have also hunted in freshwater rivers, according to a recent study.

These scientists believe AI might be able to help forecast coral bleaching weeks in advance, giving human reef managers time to prepare .

A recent study by Canada Sports Betting suggests that Alaskans have a 1 in 77 odds of being abducted by aliens in 2026.

Paleo-Inuit seafarers reached remote Greenlandic islands 4,500 years ago, archaeologists reveal.

Mosasaurs, long imagined as terrifying ocean predators, may have also hunted in freshwater rivers, according to a recent study.

Archaeologists revealed a 14,000-year-old mammoth ivory workshop in Alaska’s Tanana Valley.

Move over Pachycephalosaurus, there’s a new headbutting dinosaur from late Cretaceous western North America!

A fossil foot bone found in Montana is providing new evidence of cannibalism among tyrannosaurs.

An Oklahoma state representative is proposing a change in the state’s official fossil.

A new discovery is extending the known range of one sauropod species, while also providing supporting evidence for an intriguing environmental hypothesis.

Have you always dreamed about working in a dinosaur museum? What about getting paid for it? Apply now to be a seasonal paleontology assistant in North Dakota.

Rare-earth elements are vital for modern electronics, but mining them can be expensive and pose environmental concerns. D'Lynn Gleason's research shows that microbes from Alaska's glaciers can be used...

Have you always dreamed about digging for dinosaurs? What about getting paid for it? Your golden opportunity is here! Apply for a summer internship in Montana.

Are you using AI to automate your SEO efforts? Beware these three common pitfalls if you’re using LLMs to write meta descriptions for your web pages.

Are you using AI to automate your SEO efforts? Beware these three common pitfalls if you’re using LLMs to write meta descriptions for your web pages.

Writing quality meta descriptions for your web pages is a key feature of search engine optimization.

Back in June I had the opportunity to cover an active archaeological excavation at the Carpenter Site near Delta Junction, Alaska.

“We are fortunate to know a lot about sea otter behavior, but there’s also a lot that we don’t know,” said Ana Velasquez, a master’s candidate in biological sciences at UAA. For her thesis project, Ve...

This summer, a group of UAA students participated in an archaeological excavation at the Carpenter Site. The lowest layers of the site date back to the last “Ice Age" and provide valuable clues about ...

Recent studies from the Pacific Northwest show that the chemical 6PPD-quinone is lethal to silver salmon. The extent to which the chemical poses a threat to Alaska’s silver salmon remains an open ques...

Hoyt Thomas aims to locate uncapped and improperly sealed oil and gas wells that can pose risks to the public. In order to identify these hazards and gather the necessary data for future mitigation ef...

On June 26, a team of UAA students and faculty watched as a Terrier-Orion sounding rocket launched into space from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket’s payload included a device de...

Imagine spending months preparing the perfect family vacation, only to reach the airport and realize you're missing your luggage!

This summer, a group of UAA students participated in an archaeology dig near Delta Junction. Some of the most exciting finds were complete stone tools, including one that provided a “hands-on” connect...

The Andes Mountains are a land of extreme, sky-high peaks, but this newly discovered "volcano" is setting a different kind of record.

In Marche, a group of nine students in Kenai Peninsula College’s Semester by the Bay program had the opportunity to participate in the necropsy of a fin whale and gain first-hand experience in marine ...

Archaeology may conjure images of fantastic treasures, but most artifacts uncovered by archaeologists are more mundane. This is the case with a series of artifacts uncovered this year during the UAA a...

In April, a deceased snake was discovered in a hay bale that had been shipped from Washington state to Southcentral Alaska. The remains of the snake were sent to UAA’s McLaughlin Lab for analysis.

Residents of Southcentral Alaska have been preparing for the possible eruption of Mt. Spurr over the last few months, with concerns lingering about the effects of potential ashfall on local communitie...