The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...

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

Researchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

THESE “Notes,” which are reprinted from the Canadian Naturalist, cannot fail to interest European glacialists. Especially valuable for purposes of comparison are the detailed notes on the ...

Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or more specifically ... and writes/edits about sci-fi and how our world works. You can find his previous stuff at Gizmodo ...

Cosmopolitodus hastalis roamed the oceans during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs ... have been found in various locations around the world due to their widespread distribution in ancient times.