Of the heavy metals spewed by dying stars, the astronomers were particularly interested in iron-60. That’s because iron-60 is ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Glaciers that came as far south as New York and Wisconsin, as some did 18,000 years ago, were not the ... it's been about 600 million years since the earth has had this sort of problem.

Maui's Haleakala volcano and the rest of the Hawaiian Islands formed out of molten lava as the Pacific plate drifted over the hotspot as three to four inches a year. Map Source: TASA Graphic Arts ...

Japan stopped using the MMR vaccine seven years ago - virtually the only developed ... The triple jab was banned in Japan in 1993 after 1.8 million children had been given two types of MMR and ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

had been used as evidence to support the theory that plate tectonics started nearly as soon as Earth had solid ground — roughly 4 billion years ago. "That's probably a flawed argument now ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Rockefeller’s fortune peaked at an estimated $900 million (about $29.3 billion in ... for four different Rockefeller foundations over the years. The Bottom Line Many of the foundations ...

"Imagine a president tweeting, ‘This is the right time to buy,’ then pausing the tariffs, and later happily saying how his friends made $2.5 billion and $900 million. Real PUMP AND DUMP ...