The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

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 ...

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

We don’t often think about gravity, the invisible force that anchors us to Earth, as it always seems constant and dependable. However, it will slightly vary, sometimes by enough to make you weigh ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

In a region where pizza debates can become more heated than political discussions, Triangle Tavern has quietly perfected a red pie that deserves to be mentioned among Pennsylvania’s finest. What makes ...

Talc reveals a phase of superhydration in cold subduction, demonstrating that the ocean sends more water to the depths of the Earth.

On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...

All complex life on Earth may be the result of plate tectonics tearing apart the ancient supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion ...