Picture yourself standing at the Geographic North Pole with a compass in your hand. You'd expect that trusty needle to point ...

One thing that makes the show unique is its lack of a protagonist. Instead, the show changes focus to follow several people across many decades, each being introduced to the Heliocentrism theory and ...

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The same type of technology used by motorists to help them navigate city roadways can now be used to detect and measure the smallest movements in the Earth’s crust, an international group of ...

With the winter solstice happening this week, I once again pulled out my world globe and tried to understand just how this works. I held the globe in my hands at arm’s length and spun it slowly in a ...

Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the ...

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...