Susanna Richards gets blown off course by more than one ‘special relationship’ in last week’s Independent ...

Susanna Richards gets blown off course by more than one ‘special relationship’ in last week’s Independent ...

It was George Bernard Shaw, by most accounts, who said that “England and America are two countries separated by a common language”. That’s not all they are separated by, as we explained in a ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Paleontologists believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in Patagonia, but a new study points in a very different ...

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North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created ...