Born and raised in the state that brought you "The Physics of Football", Meg is the product of four-plus years of eclectic science training in biomedical sciences, physics and microscope imaging systems. sciencenewsexaminer@gmail.com
Few sights on Earth are more stunning that the atmospheric light show displayed by the aurora borealis and aurora australis. But Earth isn’t the only planet to dazzle with northern and southern lights. Early last year Hubble...
In language, the silent spaces between words are just as important as the words themselves. Without those split-second gaps, words would run together in a mish-mash of consonants and syllables. But how does the brain hear the sound...
The medical journal The Lancet has retracted the 1998 article that was the first to link the MMR vaccine to autism. The withdraw comes hot on the heels of a hearing that found Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the author of that...
On January 15th, the eastern hemisphere was treated to an annular solar eclipse. Check out images from that event (as well as one beautiful shot of a galaxy) in the slideshow below.Solar eclipses rank pretty high on the...
When C.G. Farmer sliced open an alligator for dissection, an organ immediately caught her eye; something about the lungs was strange. And what’s more, those strange, bird-like lungs may offer an answer to a...
Imagine a blue whale and a cricket. Not many similarities come to mind. In fact, most would probably think those animals have nothing in common. But a group of scientists is claiming one similarity: how the animals communicate. And it...
A Happy New Year to all my readers. May next year’s science be as good as the science of 2009.The most popular story of the year is also one of the most bizarre: a planet where...
In celebration of the approaching New Year, I present a list of my most popular science stories of 2009. Taken from the vast expanse of all fields of science, they may not be everyone's top ten, but they are...
In celebration of the approaching New Year, I present a list of my most popular science stories of 2009. Taken from the vast expanse of all fields of science, they may not be everyone's top ten, but they are...
In celebration of the approaching New Year, I present a list of my most popular science stories of 2009. Taken from the vast expanse of all fields of science, they may not be everyone's top ten, but they are...