A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Do you ever find yourself wondering about the rocks beneath your feet? If so then the USGS has exactly the tool you're looking for, and it's free.

The Open Space and Recreation Working Group hosted a hike through Willis Woods to a glacial erratic, one of many large boulders deposited across North America by retreating glaciers at the end of the ...

A giant slab of stone jutting out of the Rocky Mountains near Butte may just look like a clump of rocks to a random passerby, ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 ...

At the centre of this shift is STEM education, an umbrella covering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, which ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe they are witnessing the slow death of one in the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone. A new study using seismic data ...

Eggshell calcite gives us a new way to date fossil sites where volcanic layers are missing, a challenge that has limited ...