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.

Bodil Holst at the University of Bergen in Norway and her colleagues have shown that the ice resistance of polar bear fur is due to natural oils secreted onto the hairs, rather than a property of ...

JONATHAN LAMBERT, BYLINE: Nanophysicist Bodil Holst got interested in studying polar bear fur while watching a German quiz show. BODIL HOLST: In that quiz show, I learned that polar bears are ...

Discover Wildlife reports that the latest search for this answer began when Professor Bodil Holst of the University of Bergen noticed something strange while watching a TV show. Infrared cameras ...

“If we do it in the right way, we have a chance of making them environmentally friendly,” said Bodil Holst, a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway who co-wrote the study published ...