A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.