Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

A mother laments the politicization of her daughter’s graduation from UCLA where a keynote speaker turned pride into pain.

"He's a mentally unwell person who suffers from schizophrenia, and he didn't do anything to deserve it in anyway just like ...

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 69% of the net tax cuts in the bill would go to the richest fifth ...

“Take me to the ends of the Earth, take me to the land of wonders ... “Really hard.” This is where cold facts yield to the ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet ...