NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Mother Nature is cranking up the thermostat this week as areas of the country are expecting to see record heat. The upper-air pattern causing the temperatures to soar is what ...

In its final look around the Saturn system, the Cassini spacecraft captured one last image of the propellers nestled in the outermost part of the main rings. These beautiful patterns show up when tiny ...

Once you look at trees through the eyes of a dendrochronologist, you never quite see the leafy wonders the same way again. Peel away the hard, rough bark and there is a living document, history ...

Ask any second grader what you can do with the rings on a tree, and they’ll respond, “Learn the age of the tree!” They’re not wrong, but dendrochronology—the dating of trees based on patterns in their ...

The activity below allows you to build a tree-ring chronology. Each horizontal bar represents the tree-ring pattern for one tree. By looking for matches in the patterns, you should be able to build an ...

SEVERE WEATHER RAKED AREAS OF ILLINOIS to Chicago’s south Thursday—and warm, humid , unstable air in the wake of near 90-degree temps support evening t-storms Thursday Wind damage has been extensive ...

The James Webb Telescope has captured an unusual dust pattern around two stars that can track the passage of time similar to ring patterns on the inside of tree trunks. The image, detailed by the ...

Fifty millennia ago, volcanic ash and mud buried a forest of conifers along a Pacific shoreline in what is now southern Chile. In 1960, an earthquake loosened these sediments, and erosion then exposed ...