In India, many river names tend towards the mythical, the colour-based, or the regional, but geology-based nomenclature is ...

Silver has surged past $70 per ounce, setting a new all-time high and forcing the mining sector to confront a hard reality. This move […] ...

China has completed construction of the world’s most powerful hypergravity machine, a device designed to compress space and time to simulate extreme events like dam and earthquake disasters.

Far below the postcard beaches and turquoise shallows of Bermuda, scientists have mapped a colossal slab of rock that should ...

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

The federal government is updating the region’s geological maps to expand the search for critical minerals and rare earth ...

Looking through headlines about bygone Northwest floods, history repeats itself. Waters rise and later recede, and people ...

Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

From glowing red rocks to epic canyons, explore stunning Arizona desert landscapes that deliver unforgettable views and ...

China has opened the world’s longest expressway tunnel, the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, cutting through the Tianshan Mountains.

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...