Now, researchers have discovered the bears have another unexpected Arctic adaptation: greasy fur. It’s a trait that, ...

The de-icing properties of polar bear sebum could fuel new innovations, scientists say, potentially unlocking alternatives to ...

you can do it once.More than 50 brave men and women took part in the 2025 Polar Bear Plunge Super Plunge. WBAL-TV's very own Tori Yorgey was among the Super Plungers, and she took her very first ...

Polar bears need all the help they can get to survive their frosty Arctic environment. One of their biggest survival secrets appears to be greasy hair. The sebum–or hair grease–on their fur ...

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As the old philosophical question goes, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound ... time. You don’t have to develop assays and do all these ...

There's something about polar bears that's always puzzled the people who study them. How do they seem to repel snow?

“Unwashed, greasy hair made it much harder for ice to stick. In contrast, when the polar bear fur was washed and the grease largely removed it performed similarly to human hair, to which ice ...

By Ali Hazelwood The book, the third in a series ... Talk Is Cheap. It Can Make You Rich. A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well ...

When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way and wander onto the frozen Arctic Ocean.