About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

Ancient rock crystals from Australia suggest that early Earth might not have been as different as scientists had thought from the planet that exists today. Earth’s earliest history is shrouded in ...

Parents of young children will be aware of the need to encourage early reading and maths skills in their kids. They know it’s ...

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.

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A megathrust earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest. But new imaging of undersea faults and fractures has given ...

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

When Daniela Amodei meets with potential customers and business partners, they sometimes toss her a sheepish question as they leave: “What should my kid study in college?” After all, the Anthropic ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take millions of years to form, but that is giving scientists ample time to glean ...