Scientists have manufactured materials that can get thicker vertically as they are stretched horizontally, but this discovery marks the first time the phenomenon has been observed in nature.

Storms of the size that hit central part of the state Wednesday are fairly uncommon for Indiana, especially this time of year.

In 2007, Indiana had no large wind turbines. By 2009, the state's more than 600 turbines produced enough energy to power nearly 400,000 homes.

The experiment is expected to be loaded aboard a SpaceX rocket that will blast off early next year. The automated experiment will then spend four weeks aboard the International Space Station.

IU professor Daria Zieminska was the lead on a team that studied particularly heavy particles at Fermilab, near Chicago.

The institute plans to focus on heart disease, diabetes and nutrition. It formed in 2013 and already has $50 million on hand from a state grant and private donations.

Fall arrives on Sept. 23, but Mother Nature delivers a show stopper on Sept 27: a total lunar eclipse WFYI's Jill Ditmire talked with Butler University Physics & Astronomy Professor Brian Murphy to find out where to look, and what we will see.

It is hoped that the new supercomputer, expected to go online by 2025, would be the first "exascale" machine - some 20 times faster than today's fastest machine, called Tianhe-2 (Milky Way-2).

A security gap on the most popular smartphone operating system was discovered by security experts in a lab and is so far not widely exploited. It would let malicious code take over a phone instantly.

The latest photos show ice plains that appear to be only 100 million years old and a hilly region that could be what is left when surrounding material is eroded away.