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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liam Thompson slept on a giant marshmallow and shared the soft experiment results. This Psychological Term Explains How GOP ...

A coal tip in Poland is transformed into a flower-filled meadow in a single season thanks to an innovative soil additive.

The Great Transformation The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and ...

According to the latest mathematical models, the moon has a fluid outer core and a solid inner core, similar to Earth’s. The ...

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 ...