EXCLUSIVE: Solar Eclipse Drives Away Cumulus Clouds: Here’s Why This Matters

By Rhodilee Jean Dolor Plants and animals have been observed to exhibit strange behaviors during a solar eclipse, when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth causing evening-like darkness during the day...

The entire state of Illinois is going to be crawling with cicadas

Brace yourselves, Illinoisans: A truly shocking number of cicadas are about to live, make sweet love, and die in a tree near you. Two broods of periodical cicadas—Brood XIX on a 13-year cycle and Brood XIII on...

New tool provides researchers with improved understanding of stem cell aging in the brain

Researchers can use the light naturally thrown off by biological specimens to better study the different states of stem cells in the nervous system, thanks to a tool developed at the University of...