At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

For many years, a remarkable stone lay unnoticed on the ground, passed by countless individuals without a second glance. Recently, however, it caught the eye of Ladislav Oravec from Fiľakovo, an ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The field of geotechnical engineering has long recognized the critical role of water-rock interactions in influencing the mechanical behavior of rock masses, particularly in the context of mining and ...

A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...