New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of widespread decline, marking the first time ...

Deep inside caves, water dripping from the ceiling creates one of nature's most iconic formations: stalagmites. These pillars ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

Researchers are finding extraordinary new uses for what we throw away. Beet pulp may help crops resist disease, while ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...