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

Discover the amazing properties of polar bear fur that repel ice and prevent ice buildup. Learn how their specialized hair ...

"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 ...

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

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.

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.

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on Earth.

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.