Rapidly Inflating Volcano Creates Growing Mystery: It’s CSI:  Geology as a group of scientists study a mysterious and rapidly inflating South American volcano.  Researchers from several universities are using a suite of tools to piece together the restive peak’s past in order to understand what it is doing right now. Uturuncu is a nearly 20,000-foot […]

Northern Lights Seen Across Southeastern US: Red and pink streaks filled the sky across parts of the country after the Earth’s magnetic field was hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME), enabling the Northern Lights to be seen across the southeastern part of the US.  The ejection hit Monday, October 24th, at around 2p.m. ET, […]

Strange, Bone-Filled Lair:  Proof the Kraken Existed? A paleontologist insists that a massive, octopus-like creature once terrorized the oceans–and turned the bones of its prey into a self-portrait.  Paleontologist Mark McMenamin suggests that a fearsome multi-armed creature, like the creature known in folklore as the Kraken, was once the ocean’s fiercest predator.  McMenamin claims the […]

Studies of Universe’s Expansion Win Physics Nobel Prize: Three US-born citizens won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 4,  for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.  Their discovery created a new picture of the eventual fate of the universe:  a place of super-low temperatures […]

Cities on Pluto?  Solar System Speculation: Before Ed Turner and Avi Loeb tell you about their research, they want to make one thing perfectly clear: they do not claim there’s a city on Pluto. But if there were, they say, we could see it. And, as they suggest in a paper they’ve submitted to the […]