Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Humans have a predilection for doomsday predictions. Witness the much-hyped technological terror of the Y2K, or year 2000, bug, which failed to crash critical systems as projected, or the apocalyptic ...

The Aravalli Hills may appear low and worn today, but they represent one of the oldest surviving mountain systems on Earth.

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The chemistry of crystals in some of Earth’s oldest rocks may ...

Speakers at a school board meeting and on social media have voiced opposition, citing religious beliefs and a desire for more open discussion. The letter states that evolution is a unifying scientific ...