A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

North American species like the Colorado potato beetle and the fall armyworm have become invasive elsewhere. Illustration by Marilyn Foehrenbach Q: In North America, we worry about invasive ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

THE present short article is a reversion to an aspect of the subject of geologic time which I had thought to be settled, and to require no further research or controversy. In my review of Mr ...

On the other side is the Trump administration, determined to go further than any other White House to reshape American higher education. Both sides are digging in for a clash that could […] SUMY, ...

“Daddy” Rice, who said he was inspired by an elderly black man singing a song titled “Jump Jim Crow,” says Bill Pretzer, senior history curator at the National Museum of African American ...

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