A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

A small object recently captured by Earth’s gravity may not be a natural satellite at all. According to Harvard ...

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Lincoln Smith's 10-acre food forest is next to a gas station and a church off a highway in Bowie, a reclaimed cornfield that ...

For many years, paleontologists have debated about whether there was a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, or if those ...

What you should know about Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and "Lincoln Portrait" and Shostakovich’s monumental Fifth Symphony.

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

Researchers uncovered a crucial mechanism that reveals how electrons and atoms interact to create a new quasiparticle and ...

In the urban waters off Naples, shoals of bream, wrasses, as well as crustaceans, mollusks and bryozoans are returning after ...

On the cement floor of a workshop in East Lawrence, Tonatiuh Hernández Pacheco is binding reed shoots together to form a ...

This isn’t just another pretty road in Arizona; it’s nature’s greatest hits album played at full volume with the windows down. The Apache Trail Scenic Drive near Apache Junction transforms an ordinary ...

Thousands of years of history are at risk of disappearing in Iraq as the country’s ancient southern cities face erosion ...