The new telescope, the largest and most powerful ever put into space, will travel to a lonely spot 1 million miles from Earth, where it will be able to peer out into the farthest reaches of the universe.
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Scientists say they could bring back woolly mammoths. But maybe they shouldn’t
A company called Colossal is proposing would actually be a hybrid created using a gene-editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 to splice bits of DNA recovered from frozen mammoth specimens into that of an Asian elephant, the mammoth’s closest living relative.
NOAA breaks ground on upgraded port facility in Ketchikan to host research vessel Fairweather
A long-sought revitalization of a NOAA facility in Ketchikan is officially underway.
As streams warm, cold water inputs could be crucial for salmon
Cook Inlet has some of the warmest measured streams in Alaska. Temperatures are expected to climb as climate change accelerates, which isn’t good for the salmon that traffic those areas.
3 volcanoes erupting across Aleutian Range
Three volcanoes are erupting across the Aleutian Range — Great Sitkin and Semisopochnoi in the Aleutian Islands and Pavlof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula.
California company parachutes packages into rural Alaska communities
The company hopes to increase the weight they can deliver in each pod so that eventually they can drop full pallets.