MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...

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A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is ...

LAWRENCE—The Kansas Geological Survey has released a new full-color geologic map of Jewell County, where an ancient inland ...

At the heart of this discovery are zircon crystals, tiny geological time capsules that preserve chemical changes across ...

New Curtin University research has uncovered a striking link between the structure of our galaxy and the evolution of Earth's ...

As the slope flattened out, the landslide blew open the channel and spread out, depositing a wall of uprooted trees just ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Definitively dating the age of a clutch of fossil dinosaur eggs at a famous site in China may let scientists link eggshell features to environmental shifts at the time.

Scientists date dinosaur eggs that had laid buried in rock for millions of years for the first time, using new, ‘atomic clock ...