Move over Rhode Island reds; here come Rhode Island blue crabs. The ocean state’s Narragansett Bay appears to be well on its way to becoming a second Chesapeake Bay biologically. And scientists point the blame at global warming.
Records gathered during weekly fish trawls in the bay since 1959 constitute one of the longest consistent records […]

Scientists are leaving no string untuned in their attempt to unravel the secrets of the Stradivarius. They’ve analyzed varnishes, types and densities of wood, the shapes and thicknesses of the plates that make up these highly prized, centuries-old violins. Now a research team from Leiden University in the Netherlands and Borman Violins in Fayetteville, […]

A new breed of storm chasers is ready for launch. US researchers have begun sending unmanned aerial drones into the hearts of hurricanes. While smaller and less sophisticated than the pilotless craft that fly over war zones, these remote-controlled planes can rough it in the 70-mile-per-hour winds of a Caribbean cyclone and send back […]