Lots of arctic animals, including bears, woodchucks and chipmunks, hibernate through the cold winter months. During hibernation, these animals aren't sleeping. Instead, their heart rate, body ...

It's estimated that polar bears leave behind around 7.6 million kilos of their prey annually, creating a "massive and vital" ...

Nathaniel Orndorf, a materials scientist at Akron who focuses on ice, adhesion and friction, was interested in the work Dhinojwala’s lab did on geckos, but “we can’t really put geckos on the ice,” he ...

Polar bears are magnificent apex predators that spend most of their lives roaming the sea ice of the Arctic, where they hunt for seals. Everything about them evolved to suit living in one of the ...