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

The Inuit people prepare clothes using polar bear fur with its sebum coating intact, protecting them from the cold. An international team of scientists have found that sebum, or the grease that ...

While this finding sheds fascinating new light on our understanding of polar bear—and even Inuit—ecology, it may also have a suite of unrelated applications, with a similar concoction of ...

Comparing fur samples collected from animals in Svalbard, Norway, an international team of researchers first identified that ...

But as President Trump once again threatens our peoples and our countries — making the same overtures today that he did in ...

Inuvialuit artists Eli Nasogaluak and Derrald Taylor are attending Winterlude this year to celebrate their culture with an ...

Inuit people made sandals from polar bear pelts to move in almost complete silence across the ice. “I just thought: ‘Well, this is fascinating. How can this be?’” Holst said. So Holst ...

Picture: Jon Aars, Norsk Polarinstitutt While this finding sheds fascinating new light on our understanding of polar bear — and even Inuit — ecology, it may also have a suite of unrelated ...

While this finding sheds fascinating new light on our understanding of polar bear -- and even Inuit -- ecology, it may also have a suite of unrelated applications, with a similar concoction of ...