Beneath Bermuda's clear blue waters and pink beaches hides a massive geological mystery that has confused scientists for ...

The dynamic evolution of the Earth’s lithosphere, crust, and surface is the result of two main drivers: the sinking of cold, dense lithosphere at subduction zones, and the convection of the Earth’s ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

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Robert Krut grew up devouring books by Raymond Carver and the Beat Poets, heavily influenced by the short story writer’s sparse prose and the latters’ collective bent toward romantic fearlessness. To ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would have to be at least 280,000 years, and possibly millions of years, old if ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles offers dozens of license plate designs, but none are quite as sleek as the bold new plate that’s coming in August. BMV leaders unveiled new ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings ...

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Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...