Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of ...

Blood Falls in Antarctica has mystified scientists and explorers for over a century. Its striking crimson water, which flows ...

Mount Everest, our planet’s highest peak at 29,032 feet, continues to defy expectations by growing taller each year. While ...

Chinese state media reported the discovery of a gold ore deposit in central Hunan, estimated to hold over 1,000 tonnes of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same – ...

A new study published in Nature unveils the mysterious world of microbial life shaping the rivers that millions of Americans ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

Canada selects Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation and Ignace to host its first deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel.

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

Scientists analyzed Mediterranean salt deposits to uncover the Messinian Salinity Crisis that caused massive water loss and ...