Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

Forecast (prognostic) maps are also available. These indicate how the weather ... Meteorological Satellite operating in geostationary orbit 36,500 kilometres over the equator. Computer enhancement ...

In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd takes a look at a few more misconceptions about Antarctica, from its ...

Meta — the company behind Facebook — just announced an ambitious plan to link five of the world’s continents to the internet with a data cable stretching over 30,000 miles along the ocean floor. Known ...

Meta's Project Waterworth will stretch over 50,000 kilometers long, connecting the U.S. with India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Delving deep into the atmosphere of WASP-121 b and creating a 3D map of its atmosphere ... a jet stream rotates material around the planet's equator, while a separate flow at lower levels of ...

The hottest day of the year typically occurs in October or November across the tropical north of the continent, and generally shifts into ... Being close to the equator, the sun is highest in the sky ...