A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

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A new study confirms the Moon has a solid metal inner core surrounded by a molten outer layer, reshaping our understanding of ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

It a time when many children turn away from science, an IAS officer and his wife decided to change the story. What began as a ...

Urban raccoons are developing significantly shorter snouts than their rural cousins. This suggests that raccoons are entering ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

Among the items that follow, I hope that readers can find their own version of the rainbow-colored pot holder for each of ...

This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space ...

Museums are where stories stand still long enough for us to step inside. Across the United States, every state holds a ...

New research reveals that nickel and urea once throttled Earth’s earliest oxygen producers, delaying the planet’s ...

Researchers have found that shouting is more effective than speaking when trying to scare off seagulls. The study published ...