This summer, more than 100 researchers spent five weeks hunting down tornadoes, in the largest study of its kind. But it was an unusually quiet year for twisters. A data set collected from a June 5 twister in Wyoming helped to stave off disappointmen
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We could soon be learning more about black holes and binary star systems, according to Marianna Yuling Mao, of Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California.
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New observations have led astronomers to suggest that Copernicus may have been wrong and the Earth does have a special place in the universe: at the center of a gigantic cosmic void.
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