Tiny crystals preserved in ancient beach sands are offering scientists a new way to read the deep history of Australia’s landscapes.

Curtin University researchers have demonstrated a new way to uncover the ancient history of Australia's landscapes, which ...

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...

Revealing the deepest point on Earth and the methods used to measure it accurately. Trump proposes new monument near Lincoln Memorial An American dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." When you purchase through ...

How did a unit of measurement survive from the builders of Stonehenge, over four thousand years ago, through the Roman Empire, and persist in France until the French Revolution? More remarkably, how ...

It is considered obvious today that Earth is roughly a sphere and that it can be measured like any spherical object. Scientists technically call it an oblate spheroid, but it is still sphere-like in ...

As explained in Prof. Robert Jarrow’s book cited below, forward rates contain a risk premium above and beyond the market’s expectations for the 3-month forward rate. We document the size of that risk ...