The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Nigeria’s largely untapped monazite reserves could represent one of the country’s most significant economic opportunities in ...

The on-and-off volcanic eruption that’s been dazzling residents and visitors on Hawaii’s Big Island for nearly a year is back ...

A long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 12,000 years, blanketing a neighboring village in ...

IN NATURE of October 27 (p. 543) a short notice appears relative to some experiments of Prof. A. Piutti, of Naples, on the occlusion of helium from the air by salts in the act of solidification. Prof.

ALMATY – Kazakhstan has launched its first world-class geological cluster in Zhezkazgan, the most technologically advanced ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A minor, 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 4:21 a.m. Pacific time about 2 miles ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

The volcano, which rises about 500 metres in altitude, sits within the Rift Valley, a zone of intense geological activity where two tectonic plates meet ...

In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, ...