By Alton Parrish. A new ScienceCast video explains how “meteor smoke” seeds noctilucent clouds. Credit: Science@NASA Anyone who has ever seen a noctilucent cloud or “NLC” would agree: They look alien. The electric-blue ripples and [...]

By Alton Parrish.The rise of the Rocky Mountains and the appearance of a major seaway that divided North America may have boosted the evolution of new dinosaur species, according to a new Ohio University-led study. The finding, published today [...]

By Katelyn Oster. This year’s active solar storms have come and gone without much public concern. Some solar observers, however, are looking to the sky for answers to problems on our home planet. Last week over 670 million people were without [...]

By Alton Parrish. Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal observed in the days following [...]

By Alton Parrish. In Spider-Man’s latest adventure in which he fights The Lizard, scientists delve into the field of regenerative medicine as they work to re-grow a human limb. Koudy Williams, D.V.M., a self-described “Spider-Man geek” [...]

By Alton Parrish. When one observes a colorful jellyfish pulsating through the ocean, Greek mythology probably doesn’t immediately come to mind. But the animal once was known as the medusa, after the snake-haired mythological creature [...]

By Alton Parrish. Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface. [...]

By Alton Parrish. Dark energy makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe and thus holds the ultimate fate of our Universe. Several possible scenarios are possible depending on the properties of dark energy; one is that [...]

By Alton Parrish. The powerful magnitude-8.6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was larger than scientists thought an earthquake of its type could ever [...]

By Jaime Ortega Simo.   Text messaging has become an essential part of one-way-communications, but according to some experts, text messaging may also have negative effects on users. Simeon Yates a Professor of communication and technology [...]