When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is slowly sinking, leading to the emergence of a new geological ...

Saturday Night Live kicked off with Donald Trump trying hard to calm nerves about the falling stock market, only to come up with a slogan that did anything but: “Make America Great Depression ...

The United States of America isn't short on symbols that evoke ... nature—whether it's herding the American bison on the North Dakota and Kansas state seals or scattering flowers like the ...

Despite being tied together beneath the surface, these regions diverge sharply above it. Iceland and the Azores are ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The great closing of America is under way. It’s closing in multiple dimensions, but Donald Trump’s tariff decision is a concrete ...