After years of debate, the International Chronostratigraphic Chart has officially been revised. What does that mean, exactly? Our current point in Earth's geological timeline has been updated so that ...

The Meghalayan Age marks the most recent subdivision of the Holocene Epoch, which began approximately 11,700 years ago, ...

We are living in a new geological age, scientists with the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) have announced. Chemical signatures discovered in rocks rising from the floors of Indian caves ...

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Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is poised to blow up the box office this Friday, July 21, but no matter what happens at the theater, the real Oppenheimer left an eternal mark on the face of the planet ...