New research finds that grease that coats polar bear fur contains a specialized mixture of chemicals that make it resistant ...

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

"I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the same temperature as the surroundings," says Holst, of the University of Bergen in Norway. She also knew ...

To get from A to B, you must first get to A, and there it is, right outside the porthole, gleaming in the pre-breakfast sun.

I saw the polar bear breathing. I saw it licking the lens ... freshwater and marine biology at UiT—The Arctic University of Norway. This is his first story for National Geographic.

a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway who co-wrote the study published in the journal Science Advances. “That is certainly the inspiration here.” A physicist, Holst normally doesn’t think ...

Polar bears seem perfectly adapted to their frigid ... a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway who co-wrote the study published in the journal Science Advances.

Senior author Bodil Holst, a physicist at the University of Bergen in Norway, was inspired to investigate polar bear fur after watching a TV quiz program, she tells Michael Le Page at New Scientist.