Nano-physicist Bodil Holst's interest in polar bear fur began while she was watching a German quiz show. "I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras, meaning their fur has the ...

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.

An international team of scientists unlocked the anti-icing secret of polar bear fur, a discovery that could revolutionize ice-repellent technologies. The study, published as the cover story in ...