When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish suddenly. Despite advances in technology, predicting when earthquakes will ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

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A brush can be applied to any rough finish to give a smoother texture with some relief. On natural stone, due to their geological make-up, each stone will "leather" in their own unique way, so some ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

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At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

The Arctic is one of the regions most strongly affected by climate change. In recent decades, the temperature there has risen ...