Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

In 2019, an American explorer broke records by traveling to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but what he found there was ...

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

"Most people would think that these organisms are just like spores or dormant," James Tiedje said. "These microbes are active ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can ...

The exercise – dubbed “Whole of Society Defence Resilience” – will take place on Thursday from 10am to 2pm in the southern city of Tainan. The goal is to prepare the public for crises such ...

But ending our dependence on fossil fuels and adopting this new, greener technology requires a whole lot of metal ... energy-storing batteries, and rare earth elements, which help power wind ...

Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

But to measure them properly will require a colossal feat of engineering: the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment ... will generate an intense neutrino beam pointed precisely (through Earth’s crust) ...