Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same. A ...

History teachers love making everything sound clean and simple. "This happened, then that happened, everyone learned a lesson, the end." Yeah, that's garbage. The Mongols, for example, managed to ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you purchase ...

Most people can point to the seven continents on a map, but the actual reality of these massive landmasses is […] ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Derby team says the Atlantic divide may be incomplete. Iceland and the Davis Strait could hold stranded ...

Antarctica is known as the ‘Continent of Science. This is due to its dedication to peaceful scientific research and ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an instability of our planet's magnetic field. The two odd formations – one ...

Giant blobs that lurk near Earth's core are much older than scientists thought, new seismic data reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Visualisation of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. A new study led by ...