This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Stuff is old where I live, in ...

Professor Jody Webster examines a fossil coral reef core from the Great Barrier Reef soon after it is brought on deck. New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how ...

Geological time, generally considered as a system of eras, periods and epochs materialized in rock strata, might actually follow a simple and unifying model. Indeed, a new study led by physicist Shaun ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

Every half-million years or so, for unknown reasons, the earth’s magnetic field suddenly flips. Within a period of 10,000 years—a mere instant on the geological time scale—the north and south magnetic ...

Diamonds present at the birth of the Okavango Delta have a lasting connection to this landscape and are playing a unique role in its conservation today. 3:41 Geological time and tectonic forces have ...