On the night of March 17th, a boulder slammed into the Moon, creating the biggest explosion scientists have ever seen since on the Moon since they started monitoring it eight years ago. “On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,” Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement. “It exploded in... 

Crazy ants are making the U.S. Gulf Coast go, well, crazy. Officially known as ‘Tawny crazy ants’ or Rasberry Crazy Ants and discovered in the U.S. in 2002 in Houston. They have now since then spread to 21 counties in Texas, 20 counties in Florida and in southern Mississippi and Louisiana. It wasn’t until 2012 that the ants were formally identified as Nylanderia fulva, which are... 

An earthquake in Canada was felt through the Quebec and eastern Ontario areas on Friday morning. Tremors could be felt as far away as Hamilton. Earthquakes Canada reported two earthquake events on Friday morning with the first one being a 5.1 magnitude earthquake at 9:43 a.m. near Shawville, Quebec and a second 4.2 magnitude quake near Braeside, Ontario at 9:53 a.m. Simone Paul who works at the University... 

Wildlife animals can be seen by many people as very interesting and majestic creatures throughout the world. Alligators in particular are one of the more ferocious, deadly and complex creatures roaming thousands of swamps around our nation. Shows like “Swamp People” does a great job at giving viewers a detailed oriented and first person point of view of alligator hunters in Louisiana. Meanwhile,... 

Two volcanoes in Alaska, the Cleveland Volcano and the Pavlof Volcano are being closely watched as they appear to be close to erupting. Authorities have placed both volcanoes on the second-highest alert level because “sudden explosions are possible with little or no warning.” The Cleveland Volcano underwent a low-level eruption event in early May, spewing ash into the air. As of this week,... 

A paleontologist from the San Diego Natural History Museum found Ice Age bison fossil bones, in early April where crew workers were working on freeway improvements. According to the San Diego Natural History Museum, the fossils were found at the junction of State Route 76 and Interstate 15, the highway construction site for the State Route 76 East Project near Pala Mesa in the North County. The... 

In much of the Midwest, Achilles winter storm is dumping snow, which is very rare for May.  At the beginning of the week, these areas were experiencing upper 70′s to 80 degree weather and has dropped 40 to 50 degrees in the last 36 hours down to 20 to 30 degree weather. More than 30 locations in the Midwest were threatened by the daily record low temperatures on Friday morning. This includes... 

Researchers have found how cicadas keep their wings clean, dew drops. Dew drops “jump” on such surfaces, and carry away contaminants. The researchers used a high-speed video imaging system to capture the jumping dew drops onto a cicada wing.  The team from the universities of Duke and James Cook revealed dew drops are beneficial not only in cleaning cicada wings, but other water-repellent, or... 

A huge fossilized elephant bird egg was sold at auction in London for $101,813. The elephant bird egg was originally valued at an estimated $30,500 to $45,750 pre-auction, but during the Christie’s “Travel, Science and Natural History” auction on Wednesday, it was sold to an anonymous buyer over the phone after about 10 minutes of competitive bidding. James Hyslop from Christie’s Auction House... 

Scientists have created a robot that mimics the way a baby sea turtle can dig itself out of the sand and crawl to the ocean. A team of physicists and engineers out of Georgia Tech and Northwestern University analyzed 25 baby loggerhead sea turtles at night from nests on Jekyll Island. They investigated how the turtles crawled on beach sand, that was housed in a truck parked near the beach. The turtles...