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ALASKA — I would venture to guess that most dog owners haven’t thought through the contingency of having to perform C.P.R. on their dog within seconds of it suddenly collapsing, let alone having to do so in freezing temperatures, miles from any help, and without the aid of a motor vehicle – but that is [...]
Many meat-eating animals have lost their ability to taste sugars over the course of evolution.
Sea mammals, spotted hyenas and other carnivores have all shed a working copy of a gene that encodes a `taste receptor’ that senses sugars, finds a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Even though over 1 billion Google searches are performed each day, many people do not even consider how a computer functions or that a computer can actually be made up of living organisms.
On March 2, Malcolm Campbell lectured about synthetic biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Scientists in this recently emerging [...]
A bizarre orange goo that invaded and baffled a remote Alaskan village and caught the world’s attention last year has been identified. Despite occasional conspiracy theories and Internet speculation, it was both nonalien and nontoxic. But beyond that, nobody really knew what to make of it. Until now.
Researchers from the [...]
(this article is not fake, we assure you — if you don’t trust us, simply ‘google’ it & read about it in articles that are much less spectacular than this one…)
NOT FAIRBANKS — A man that has no apparent ties to Alaska, let alone to the Fairbanks area (or, for that matter, any of [...]
The first horses in North America would not have been able to hold their own in the Triple Crown. At just about 5.6 kilograms the Sifrhippus sandrae hoofed onto the scene some 56 million years ago about the size of a small dog.
But then a funny thing happened. In the [...]
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