This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Beneath the American Midwest, part of the continent is gradually losing its foundation. This slow geological phenomenon, ...

The team used a new method of mapping the undersides of continental crust known as full-waveform ... Earth by buckling to every washed-up former oceanic plate that comes along.

This closure is attributed to the descent of the Southern Indian block, which carried the oceanic crust beneath the much older Dharwar craton, around 2.5 billion years ago, along a major ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

You can get in touch with Ian by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English. The crust of volcanically active Venus could be churning with convection currents just like the Earth's mantle.

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes) has a ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle ...

April 5, 2025 • Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

Mar. 25, 2025 — A new study has uncovered evidence of far-reaching ecosystem consequences following the disappearance of Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) from False Bay, South Africa ...