The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...
The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...
Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...
Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...
"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.
A seemingly small planetary neighbor may play a larger role in Earth’s climate than previously thought. Mars is only about ...
Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that direction depends on where you are.
Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 13, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental ...
New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.
A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.
Over 600 million years ago, most of Earth completely froze over, becoming “Snowball Earth.” But even during this frigid period, the climate still behaved in familiar ways, earth scientist Chloe ...
Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unleashed artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up the hunt for next-generation magnetic materials. By building a massive, searchable ...