Scientists say they have figured out how to transform rocks into something extraordinary: a high-tech, low-cost substance ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Its study includes plate tectonics, volcanism, the chemistry of lava and volcanic rocks, gravity and geomagnetic anomalies as well as seismic investigations into the structure of the mantle.

“Rock” is so loose a label as to be pretty much meaningless these days. But the best rock albums, even if they aren’t that musically similar, share some things in common: boundary-breaking ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Scientists have uncovered potential remnants of Earth's ancient crust, often referred to as ‘sunken worlds,’ hidden deep within the mantle.And this was possible because of a new way of mapping ...

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

A new study discovers ancient subterranean islands several meters taller than Mount Everest that are hotter than their surroundings.