Science News Roundup: Explainer-Total solar eclipse 2024: When is it and what to expect?; Wide swath of US will get buggy as two cicada broods intrude

Here is an explanation of the solar eclipse, where it will be visible and what to expect. Wide swath of US will get buggy as two cicada broods intrude Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States.

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Explainer-Total solar eclipse 2024: When is it and what to expect?

The moon will blot out the sun for millions of people in North America along a path crossing from Mexico into the United States and then Canada in a total solar eclipse occurring on Monday April 8. Here is an explanation of the solar eclipse, where it will be visible and what to expect.

Wide swath of US will get buggy as two cicada broods intrude

Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are poised to put on quite a show starting this month in a wide swath of the United States. Two sizable adjacent broods of periodical cicadas - the kind that spend a specific number of years underground as nymphs before popping up together for a brief bacchanalia of singing and mating - are set to emerge simultaneously, one concentrated in Midwestern states and the other in the South and Midwest.

(With inputs from agencies.)