A huge brood of 17 year cicadas are due to hatch early this summer in the Midwest. Read all the details and get study materials and other information at Cicada Mania 2007.
More Cicada websites:
Cicada Mania
Chicago Cicadas
Cicadas - Garden Facts
Cicadas of Michigan (includes audio files and identification info)
Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50% larger than the Earth and capable of having liquid water. Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope, a team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists discovered a super-Earth about 5 times the mass of the Earth that orbits a red dwarf, already known to harbour a Neptune-mass planet. The astronomers have also strong evidence for the presence of a third planet with a mass about 8 Earth masses.Read more here
Geologists discover world's largest fossil forest in the ceiling of an Illinois coal mine
By EricHand
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Illinois geologists have discovered the remains of one of the world's oldest tropical rain forests, preserved in the ceiling of a coal mine 250feet below the surface.
Photo by NASA, from Apollo 17 flight, 1972
