The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy may be unleashing huge, gassy explosions — and now, astronomers think they’ve pinpointed the exact spot where that superheated gas is spilling into the Milky Way. Acting like a gargantuan exhaust vent, the newly discovered feature is a bright region of X-ray energy that’s nearly […]
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — The most noticeable part of the cicada invasion blanketing the central United States is the sound — an eerie, amazingly loud song that gets in a person’s ears and won’t let much else in. “It’s beautiful chaos,” said Rebecca Schmidt, a U.S. Department of Agriculture research entomologist. “It does make this […]
Daryl Smith takes tornado watches and warnings very seriously. He didn’t always. Surviving the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period changed him. “Before that time, in Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, if the weather man said there was a tornado watch or warning, people didn’t give much heed to it,” said Smith, 62, of […]
A motion-sensor camera in southern India has captured rare nighttime footage of a fabled black panther lurking on the patio of a residence at night. “Look who is silently entering into a home near Coonoor, Nilgiris,” Kishore Chandran described Thursday via X. Coonoor is known for its sprawling tea plantations in the Nilgiri Hills. The […]