Over the past centuries, Earth's magnetic north has been drifting east at an accelerating pace, shifting thousands of ...

The energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables is a crucial part of the cure for climate change. But it’s a cure with ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu ...

An American startup is scaling up a process for harvesting materials, including rare earth metals and nickel, from mining ...

Asteroids not only represent a potential threat to humanity, they also offer great opportunities, especially for the future.

A new study of pollutants in moss near the Reworld Marion garbage incinerator north of Salem in Brooks shows higher ...

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

Phoenix Tailings' innovative process uses water and recyclable solvents to extract rare earth metals from mining waste.

It would not be surprising if the two items were made out of meteoric iron. The out of this world metal was used before the ...

The Treasure of Villena is known to have been discovered in 1963 near the town of Villena, Spain. It includes mostly gold ...

How climate change affects pollutants in the ocean. The ocean is warming, acidifying, and losing oxygen—well-documented ...