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  • A landscape with spruce trees in the foreground and a rocky mountain slope in the distance.

    Geologic hydrogen may be an answer

    November 09, 2024

    The internal combustion engine is less than 100 years old. Same for the technologies we have developed to pull oil and gas from the ground. It's hard to imagine life without our cars and planes and buildings heated with natural gas and oil. But it really wasn't that long ago that people had none of these things. Sometimes, advances happen, and clever people change the way we live.

  • Cars sit in a parking lot covered with slushy snow.

    The numbers behind a weather forecast

    November 01, 2024

    A meteorologist from the National Weather Service's local office recently told a newspaper reporter that heavy, wet, snow would materialize in a few days. He said it would resemble "cement falling from the sky."

  • Clusters of 鈥渇airy circles鈥 in Western Australia have been found to seep hydrogen gas.

    UAF workshop will look at Alaska's geologic hydrogen

    October 25, 2024

    Reshaping Alaska's energy future with geologic hydrogen is the subject of a three-day workshop next week hosted by the 黑料社app Geophysical Institute and the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.

  • A person holds a toothy skull.

    Weasels are cute, natural-born killers

    October 25, 2024

    Weighing as much as a cup of walnuts and resembling a squeaky dog toy, the short-tailed weasel is easy to underestimate.

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