The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

Leonardo da Vinci sketched what he believed was the perfectly proportioned male body. Now, a dentist claims to have worked ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

It was more than two centuries later that the illuminati as people understand it today began. In 1776, Adam Weishaupt, a professor of natural and canon law at the University of Ingolstadt, Bavaria ...