We examine why the Earth's constant spin goes completely unnoticed by the people living on it. We think about it and then forget.

Spring is officially one month away, and early outlooks are already hinting at what the season may bring. Here's what to ...

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

Spring is officially one month away, and early outlooks are already hinting at what the season may bring. Here's what to expect.

When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ...

Deserts are notoriously dry, so why do so many of them border oceans?

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build evolutionary trees from hundreds of anatomical traits—hip sockets, vertebrae, ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

I DDS, MS Dr. med. dent. MSc, Private Practice, Corfu, Greece, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Dental School ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...