Science & Tech

Alaska has its share of big science projects, to be sure. But to get results, science doesn’t always have to be huge.

With the Federal Aviation Administration considering Alaska as a drone test site, lawmakers are drafting a policy for their use in the state.

KUAC reports that technical problems have resulted in the new National Science Foundation vessel over-wintering in the Great Lakes.

If it manages to hold itself together after a rendezvous with the sun, ISON “could reappear in the dawn sky in early December as a potentially spectacular naked-eye object for skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere,”

The U.S. lost an average of 80,000 acres of coastal wetlands from 2004 to 2009, according to the latest data published by federal agencies.

Alaska fishermen want to broaden the experimental use of cameras and other monitoring devices in the federal government’s fishery observer program.