Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

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: ...

Far be it from us to suggest there’s a parallel between the continental plate’s behavior and what is happening on top, but ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Until now, however, the idea of cratonic thinning has been based on evidence left over from ancient events ... it’s happening today to the North American Craton, also known as Laurentia.

The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Archaeologists exploring deep inside a remote cave in Big Bend were flabbergasted to discover ...