But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail’ - the mantra of the lecturer on my teacher training course was whirling through my mind as ...

This theory gained traction in March 2018 when a massive crack opened in southwestern Kenya after heavy rains, swallowing part of the Nairobi-Narok highway. This crack appeared in the Kenyan Rift ...

Dana Randall, a professor in the School of Computer Science, and Jacob Calvert, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, have formulated a theory of rattling that ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

At the time, there was no theory of plate tectonics. Geologists were not in agreement as to what forces were driving geological evolution, and Tharp’s findings were extremely significant.