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: ...

Tucked between rolling Appalachian hills and blooming dogwoods lies Lewisburg, West Virginia – a place where history whispers ...

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

​ Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with four Times Opinion columnists about how ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

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

While many Missourians flock to Branson or the Lake of the Ozarks when vacation time rolls around, the savviest travelers know that this Mississippi River gem offers something those popular ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...